Word: cures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reach the phone and telephoned a doctor. He soon came with a supply of Methylene Blue which is a newly discovered remedy for this poisoning heretofore unremediable. He had learned of this discovery through reading TIME, and admitted this to me since I also had read of this cure (TIME...
...Astonishing is ''the vast provision of convalescent home and sanatorium accommodation, probably larger in proportion to population than in any other civilized country." Health officials are making especially strenuous efforts to "liquidate"' tuberculosis and venereal disease. In all regions are special institutions for the treatment and cure of both...
Though the League of Nations has been in the process of quietly passing away for a number of years, it was impossible to find any of the expectant relatives ready either to recognize publicly the imminence of death and suggest a cure, or to bring in the hatchet and make an abrupt end of it. But now comes one from Italy who boldly suggests either of these unpleasant alternatives; the immediate remedy, or the axe. Mussolini is not, of course, too serious in believing that any medicine can be found which will restore a noticeable degree of health...
...associations now depends on gate receipts, universities like Yale and Harvard cannot sensibly continue to believe that this will always be the case. The addition of paying games and the consequent lengthening of the season are at best artificial stimulants. It will take far stronger measures than these to cure athletic finances. Although Harvard's position is hardly more secure than Yale's in this respect, the H.A.A. has rightly judged that the potential evils of renewed over-emphasis are far greater than the benefits of increased gate-receipts...
...Cancer "Cures." Good news to enemies of quack cancer "cures" were two court actions last week. In St. Louis three years ago Mrs. G. W. Haggard discovered a pea-sized lump in her right breast. A surgeon advised an immediate operation. More attractive was the prospect held out by Drs. John E. and Edward C. Westaver, father & son, who promised a cure with their salves at $2 a treatment. After nine months in their care Mrs. Haggard died. In St. Louis medical experts testified that dallying with the worthless Westaver nostrums had cost her a chance of recovery through proper...