Word: curely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Columbia issued its first authorized report on phenosulfazole. The news was good. But the university made it plain that it will be a long time before anybody can safely use the words "cure" and "polio" in the same sentence...
Almost everybody, except a doctor, thinks he knows a sure cure for hiccups. And sometimes the home remedies work...
...sometimes a bargain rate of $15), testimony showed, Dr. Koch sells a two-cubic-centimeter ampoule of a drug he calls "glyoxylide." Until the law began reading them, the labels promised cures for "cancer, allergy, and infection." Food & Drug accuses him of claiming to cure "practically all human ills, including . . . tuberculosis." Glyoxylide, according to Dr. Koch, is the "internal anhydride" of glyoxylic acid. Chemists know all about glyoxylic acid, but they never heard of anybody having isolated its internal anhydride. Food & Drug Attorney William W. Goodrich said Government chemists could find nothing in it but distilled water, called...
...ease their pain. An osteopath told of trying the Koch treatment on five cancer patients (including his wife); all died. Last fortnight the Federal Court was asked to nol-pros the case. Koch, the petition said, has changed the labels on his drug; they no longer claim a cure for anything. The Food & Drug Administration will continue to keep a suspicious eye on Dr. Koch. But interfering with his $100,000 business will not be easy; Koch is, says Lawyer Goodrich, "probably the smartest, brightest quack...
...Harvard graduate student, he pioneered in studies on muscular contraction, after going to Lederle concentrated on folic acid (part of the vitamin-B complex), helped develop its derivatives, teropterin and aminopterin (now being used to fight cancer), directed research that produced the new antibiotic, aureomycin (a cure for serious infections untouched by penicillin or streptomycin...