Word: curely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there no cure for epilepsy?" many have asked. No, none. Yet in Moscow last week a truly well-known physiologist, Professor Pavlof, froze part of a dog's brain. The dog developed epilepsy. In its veins Pavlof found a toxin which he believes to be the specific cause of the epileptic condition. He immunized a healthy beast by injecting it with the toxin. "If this works with humans," his assistant Dr. Speranski, told a concourse of physicians at Leningrad, "Pavlof has a cure for epilepsy...
...live, as well as the greater part of the work, consists in getting at the cause of social decline. All along the line as in the concrete case of disease, our attention is shifting and laying the emphasis on the prevention rather than the cure of social evils. Our work and in general the theory of social service is readjustment of the individual to an environment with which he is out of tune...
Last April Mr. Vanderbilt gave $125,000 for a gymnasium for the dormitory. The inclusion of the gymnasium in the dormitory, which marks a precedent in medical education, is part of the general movement for the prevention rather than the cure of disease. It is the wish of Mr. Vanderbilt that the gymnasium be used in connection with courses in the Medical School...
...Ghostly Cure. Jeanne Devors, 23, of Belgium, had been operated upon twice and given up as hopeless with her deformed, tubercular hip. Delegate Connecks had treated her, including direct prayer to God and magnetic passes by mediums, and behold! the hip regains its shape! Jeanne walks...
Goiter. Seaweed in the diet would prevent goiter, in some degree cure it. Half the young girls between the Atlantic Coast and the Rocky Mountains suffer from incipient goiter. Girls on the Pacific Coast are remarkably free from it So said Dr. J. W. Turrentine, U. S. Department of Agriculture...