Word: cures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fields where it already existed; and plans for further changes are constantly under consideration. Bearing this in mind, it is with a constructive attitude that we approach the problem, intent on tearing away nothing that exists, but eager to determine whether, as has been said of democracy, the cure for the evils around the tutorial system be not more tutorial system...
...Vanderbilt's gift, according to Dr. Rackemann, "marks a new era in medical education. It is a part of the general movement for the prevention rather than the cure of disease. The Greeks and the Romans depended on their gymnasiums and baths to keep them well, because these were their only preventive measures against disease. Hippocrates wrote that doctors ought to be taught how to take care of themselves so that they could better take care of others. This appreciation of the importance of physical culture, together with much other knowledge of great value, was lost during the middle ages...
...Treasury has attempted to give the Bureau time to cure a few million bills by issuing the silver dollar or "cartwheel." But this endeavor failed dismally, as the public has for some reason become greatly prejudiced against the largest silver coin. From the Treasury standpoint, a circulation of silver dollars would be quite considerably cheaper than one of paper money, owing to the constant expense of engraving and printing new bills for old. Thousands of dollars could be saved annually if 40,000,000 silver dollars could be kept in circulation. But this is apparently a useless wish. Back...
Also, last week, the French Academy of Sciences−and the scientific world in general−was advised by one of its members, M. Daniel Berthelot, that two friends of his, Messieurs J. Risler and P. Mondain, had a preventative and a cure for radiodermitis. Noting that the long-waved infra-red heat rays are antagonistic to shorter-waved constituents of the Xray, such as the potent ultra-violet*Risler and Mondain had contrived a "ray filter" of plastic material, penetrable only by the infra-red and yellow rays. The long-waved rays thus filtered out were then applied...
...significance of the discovery (if valid) is that it will open a new field for cancer-cure experiments, using the X-ray purged of its injurious radiations...