Word: cures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice's Division of Investigation wanted an end to "political pressure" on enforcement agencies. Commissioner H. J. Anslinger of the Treasury's Bureau of Narcotics, whose men over the previous weekend had rounded up 793 dope dealers and addicts, proposed special wards in county sanatoriums to cure criminal and noncriminal drug addicts. Miss Dorothy Frooks of Peekskill, N. Y., denounced the exploitation of ball games and cinemas in penitentiaries lest "the prisons hold out a welcoming hand to the youth of the nation." Republican Hurley: "Such work as the extermination of crime should not be partisan." Republican Stimson...
...Prosper Ménière decided that such symptoms collectively represented a definite disease of the inner ear caused by infection or degeneration. The French physician could do nothing to cure the disease which, upon his death the following year, his colleagues called Ménière's Disease. Nor could his successors do much until the perfection of brain surgery 20 years ago. Brain surgeons stopped the symptoms simply by cutting the acoustic nerve and disconnecting the diseased ear from the brain. Such an operation, however, resulted unavoidably in total deafness. For this reason most surgeons were reluctant to perform...
...mechanics of medical propaganda came to light last week when Dr. John Augustus Hartwell, director of the New York Academy of Medicine, called one Alfred Fitz Roy Anderson a liar for saying that Dr. Hartwell was going to test the Koch cancer "cure...
...profession and will furnish enough of the material to have it given a thorough trial in several hospitals where its results can be observed by men competent in the field of cancer, I shall continue to advise those who ask my advice not to submit to the Koch cancer cure or advance its interests financially or otherwise. If Dr. Koch will meet these conditions I will use my good offices to see that the material is tried in enough hospitals to test its real worth...
...Hartwell was already using his "good offices" in behalf of the Koch concoction. To overtake and down such rumors, that able Academy director sat down last week and wrote to every editor he knew: "May I emphatically deny . . . that I have become interested in Dr. Koch's cancer cure, and that I have promised to aid in having a demonstration of Dr. Koch's cancer serum made on 1,000 cancer sufferers? These statements are entirely without foundation, and whoever is propagating them is doing gross violence to the truth...