Word: cures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only Child shows how easily a child may be spoiled by a romantic mother. The cure is effected by sensible Lucius Brutus Allen, a comfortable town philosopher, who appears also in The Spring Concert, where he wooes unsuccessfully the beautiful Mary Ricketts. Philosophically he makes a match between her and young Perley; and in Maytime in Marlow meets a former sweetheart, now a widow with two children. He alone can manage the children, and so at last he succeeds in love...
...higher than measles or diphtheria. "Insulin," perhaps the most widely heralded medical discovery of the past year, continues to show promise, though its originators claim only that it has alleviated some cases and enabled patients to assimilate a more normal diet. Announcement has just been made of the "cure" of an apparently hopeless case of diabetes. A New York mathematics teacher and former athlete, Joseph Corbett, became ill in 1917, grew progressively worse, was pronounced incurable by physicians, and last October, after a breakdown, lingered on a starvation diet, too weak to turn in bed. His wife had bought...
...detective story and the heroic biography, are less liable to exercise them in real life. What the Freudians call a " compensation mechanism " is set up by trashy literature which dissipates the energy of the impulses which might otherwise be seriously translated into action. Not that cheap reading is a cure for hysteria, for the great mass of people are probably irremediably twisted and warped emotionally by these complexes anyway, but it is rendered less intense and harmful. In fact, in a later essay Shaw has admitted that if the public appetite for murder, cruelty, romantic love and heroics were...
American eye specialists are sceptical of the cure and are waiting for further particulars. Some frankly believe it impossible. The method has not yet been published in medical journals or before scientific associations, although lack of such facilities in Russia is explicable enough. Rus-sian physicians who have seen the process are divided as to its merits. Professor Katz is reported to be eager to send technical descriptions and photographs of the operation to the Western world, but he will not leave Russia to demonstrate...
There have already been 2,716 applicants for the prize of $100,000 offered last year by Lord Atholstan, of Montreal, for the discovery of a cure for cancer. Claims have come from 41 different countries. Before application the claimants must satisfy a recognized medical faculty or society that there is scientific justification for investigating their "cures...