Word: cures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stars & Stripes painted on her sides, sailed from New York for Leftist Spain, her hull bulging with 11,000,000 lb. of foodstuffs contributed by Leftist sympathizers. Perhaps the most precious part of her cargo was a 26-pound package of nicotinic acid (270,000 doses), the recently developed cure for pellagra. This gift, addressed to Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, himself a well-known physiologist, was sent by 39 U. S. scientists, including three Nobel Prizewinners...
...patients. Most of them are prisoners and parolees who have been sentenced to the farm. But there is a limited number of voluntary patients who are chosen directly by the Surgeon General. Rehabilitation is mainly psychological, based on the principle of "sympathetic treatment," for practically all elaborate physical "cures" are either useless or positively harmful. Only method which has given good results is a rapid reduction over four to ten days of the amount of narcotics the addict is accustomed to take (known to addicts as the "iron-cure"). Restlessness is overcome by several ten-minute warm baths...
Miss Densmore's finds include whole Indian folk operas, entertainments requiring as long as nine hours to perform. Medicine men have confided to her secret therapeutic chants. A typical one is the San Bias Indians' cure for hangover...
Elimination of tooth decay, they warned, is not the task of cooks. "We do not advocate the deletion of cereals from the diet, but rather suggest that measures be directed to removing or inhibiting the offending carbohydrate fractions prior to human consumption." No cure for adults, a strictly regulated diet will be of value only to children. Said the Brothers Belding: "You have to catch them young...
...That Certain Age," which opened last night at the Memorial, presents one of the most vicious triangles ever screened, for to the utter confusion of Jackie Cooper, Miss Durbin bestows her love on Melvyn Douglas. The absorbing problem of how to cure a girl of her first "crush" is well handled by her parents(Irene Rich and John Haliday) and the urbane Mr. Douglas, but may not appeal to undergraduates as much as the accompanying football farce, "Mr. Doodle(Joe Penner) Kicks...