Word: cures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rotary International was on hand. He reported on Modern Youth. "Modern youth," said President Sapp, "has neither hope of heaven nor fear of hell. He commits suicide as a part of his college course, and he and his sisters fly across the seas knowing that saltwater is a sure cure for all ills...
...lecture room the students salute him by standing. In a soft, kindly voice and with simple terms he explains that in paresis the spirochetes attack first the meninges (covering of the brain). Later they ulcerate the front lobes of the brain. Paralysis results. Attacks of malaria seem to cure the ulcers. A paretic patient can never be completely cured...
Heilner's account of a toothache and its cure in a case of emergency [TIME, Aug. 29].- It is not my purpose to belittle TIME'S efficacy as a sedative or anaesthetic in such a case. But I believe that some advice on the subject would not be out of place...
...toothache, as a general rule, is due to one or the other of two things: an inflamed vital nerve, or a dead pressure. In the first case the symptoms would be a "jumping" ache aggravated by drawing in cool air. The cure would be to hold warm water in the mouth to reduce inflammation. The symptoms in the second case (that of a dead nerve) are a sore tooth, sore to bite on, and a steady grumbling pain, not severe. In this case try cold water to contract the gas evolved by putrefaction...
...Subscriber Heilner described his toothache cure as follows: "How could a man after boarding the 5:08 p. m. train for the seashore relieve himself of an acute toothache which suddenly seized him after the train had left station past help of all drugstores, dentists? "One method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing-gum. "On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results...