Word: cures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much simpler cure was suggested last week for a much noisier head noise under observation at Hines Hospital, run by the U. S. Veterans Administration in Proviso Township, near Chicago. Charles Hester had complained of a ticking in his head, and doctors could actually hear the ticking by cupping their ears a few inches away. It had bothered him intermittently ever since a shell exploded near him in the War. Colonel Hugh Scott, chief of the hospital staff, diagnosed as follows: "The tick-tock is caused when he moves a certain muscle in his palate. The movement of the palatal...
...Herelle prematurely decided that he had a cure for all bacterial diseases, and phage became a sensation. (The young doctor in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith was a phage researcher.) More than 50 different phages were found, and some of them were photographed by ultraviolet light in ultra-microscopes, revealing diameters of two to 90-billionths of a metre. They were tried out as cures for cholera, dysentery, blood poisoning, boils and other diseases, but on the whole proved disappointing. Some bacteria seemed to acquire an immunity to their phages. Some phages worked well in test tubes, failed in human bodies...
...nose, she pops up at the hut after the dwarfs have gone to work. Snow White forgets the dwarfs told her not to let anyone in. She takes a bite of the red, delicious-looking poisoned apple. The apple brings the sleeping death for which the only cure is love's first kiss...
This new drug has been found to be a specific cure for blood poisoning and gonorrhea, and a powerful remedy for pneumonia and meningitis. It is also a distressing poison, sometimes causing, if not taken with proper precautions, itching rashes, jaundice, agranulocytosis (lack of white blood corpuscles, which the system needs to fight off infection) and cyanosis. Cyanosis is due to the sulfur of the sulfanilamide combining with the hemoglobin of red blood corpuscles. This prevents the red corpuscles from carrying oxygen through the system and as the result, the body turns blue. Such catastrophes may happen if a patient...
...begins with an account of how the organization was conceived to meet the "crisis" brought on by another Democratic Administration (Grover Cleveland's). "Great crises," observes N. A. M.'s historian, "are always the fathers of the men and the measures that bring about their alleviation or cure." The history continues darkly...