Word: cures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem of peace is not a matter of finding some cure-all for war. We do not seek a nostrum. We cannot look for a panacea. But we must develop a process of dealing with situations as they arise by some orderly method. We must do what we can, albeit our powers may be limited, to build a law and legal institutions to which nations may appeal instead of allowing their differences to fester, to smart and to drag them apart. We must do this, at any rate, if we want our international society to be orderly and peaceful...
...When a Koch discovers the tubercle bacillus, a Banting discovers insulin for the relief of diabetes, or a von Behring an antitoxin for the cure of diphtheria, or a Park demonstrates the value of the antitoxin for the prevention of diphtheria, the world draws a long breath as if saying to itself, 'Now we are rid of that terror which has haunted the human race for centuries.' It then straightway forgets and goes on its way comfortably, assuming that, of course, the great discovery or invention is being carried into effect...
...hypothesis that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the Lampoon, editors are prepared to meet any emergency; distrustful alike of weather reports and all the laws of averages, they consider that the day of the Yale game, above all, is no time to take chances...
Just as there is no cure for epilepsy, there is none for distemper, scourge of dogs. Almost all have it at some time, but those that have it badly, even if they do not die, are generally done for. Blinded, paralyzed or twisted, they can only find a spot in a stable-yard and wait for death. Hard is the lot of yellow alley-dogs, which often have no place to go; they must drag themselves about from corner to corner, pushing a pair of useless front legs or perhaps pulling their bodies behind them like billets because their hind...
...Patton, in the Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital, Manhattan, let it be known that he is using ultra-violet-ray treatment. He installed a quartz lamp and put blue goggles on the dogs to protect their eyes from the strong light. But he does not believe he has found a cure...