Word: curely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aged 49, developed the Health Education Society, as an adjunct of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. Wrote a book, Intestinal Gardening. Opened a Health Education Society Clinic in Manhattan, to cure alcoholism, drug addiction, dietary ills. He hired a medical staff, advertised for patients, earned $500 a month. This vexed New York doctors who complained to the municipal board of health. His priesthood repelled investigation as it attracted him patients, especially female patients. Although he had licensed physicians on his staff, he frequently examined patients himself, persuading women (many have complained to city health authorities) to strip naked except...
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...foreign languages and prepared to be off for more vacation, more conferences. Proudly they postcarded home that they had stood where Hamlet heard his father's ghost, had seen the room where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern told the King that as old student friends of Hamlet they could cure his lunacy...
From New York the contagion of prison revolt last week spread to the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. It infected U. S. convicts with a fit of riotous fury which took six hours to cure. The prison temperature was 100°. Spanish rice was repeated at the noon mess. Nine hundred of the penitentiary's 3,758 inmates rebelled, threw their food and plates about, broke windows, seized knives and forks. Ordered back to their cells, they bolted for the prison yard where they screamed curses, milled about frantically, became altogether unruly. When a fire hose failed to break them, guards...
...great numbers. In England and Wales, for example, as far back as the beginning of this century two women died of alcoholism to every three men. The Keeley Institute at Dwight, Ill., which was in the news last week because it is enlarging its inebriety cure facilities, has had women patients since the late Leslie E. Keeley founded it a half century ago.* The "Keeley Cure" usually requires four weeks. The charge is $150, plus board & lodgings. Last year the institute treated more drunks than during any year since...