Word: curely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Futile had been the attempt to cure the young mute by the sudden changes of air pressure incident to so wild an airplane ride. Such cures have occasionally resulted when deafness or vocal paralysis was functional. But not when either was organic, as in this case. Julius Shaefer was mute from a lesion in his brain. Yet, his mother, against the objection of her Dr. Samuel C. Reiss, had put her child through the ordeal, stubbornly faithful that science could cure...
...only when the joints and other skeletal articulations function normally. This is especially important for the ribs, spine, pelvis. If the bones are in proper relation, then flesh, nerves and other parts of the anatomy hung on to them, function properly and prevent the invasion of disease. Inversely, to cure disease, the doctor must manipulate the bones into natural position. Hence the fundamental osteopathic principle: "Find the lesion, adjust it, and let it alone." Dr. Still established his theories as a new school of medicine in 1874. He died only eleven years ago, at Kirksville...
...first disciples included thoughtful men puzzled by the frequent inefficacies of regular medicine, which considered the food and drugs absorbed by the body all important for health and cure. But more numerous were the hodgepodge who found in uncritical osteopathy a quick means of earning easy money as "doctors." Osteopathy stirred the opposition of regular medicine, and osteopathy fought with club and clout...
...draft text of a law authorizing vivisection of humans in an effort to discover a cure for cancer was unanimously approved, last week, by the board of National Sanitation at Havana, Cuba, and sent to the Cuban Congress for debate, action...
...streets. They came to see this Polsjchak, who told them of his remedy. For 20 years he had been studying tuberculosis and cancer, just as the neighbors said. Now he had invented a medicine which he called "abjinin," a mixture of vegetable juices and etheric oils which would cure internal cancer in three to six months; cutaneous cancer in a matter of weeks. The doctors were impressed. They invited Polsjchak to work at the hospital. So satisfactory were his results that a group of doctors applied for a license to establish a sanatorium for him. The Jugoslavian authorities refused...