Word: cures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That economically and politically speaking, the world is very sick, even professors now admit; from every side come invocations of cure-alls and magic panaceas. Not the least bewildered by this year-long shower of ideological bonbons is the college man, who of all people should be attempting to view the situation with practical and theoretical clearness. To help him do this, New York University has begun a course of lectures, given once a week, on some topic of world economics, politics, or social problems...
...Walls of Gold" is recommended as a breather, because everything turns out rosy in the end. Ralph Morgan plays the part of the wrong husband and does a masterful job of being incredulously fiendish. A serious spectator might contemplate justified murder as the only dose of medicine to cure his high-handed treatment of the fair Sally...
...adrenals at too fast a pace. The adrenals overwork, and cause the thyroid to lose more power than the body can stand. Follows goiter, diabetes, peptic ulcer, heart ailments. Reasoned Dr. Crile, "If this interpretation is correct, then this entire group of neurogenic diseases should be abated or cured by removal of the thyroid, when the disease is in the thyroid group; by denervation of the adrenals when the disease is in other groups, while in a small group both thyroid-removal and adrenal-denervation should abate or cure the disease. That this is the case is now established." Factory
...Alcohol injected into certain nerves as they emerge from the spine relieves pain without otherwise affecting the patient. Therefore, Dr. Perry Maurice Lichtenstein, Manhattan criminologist, uses the method to speed the cure of narcotic addicts. The alcohol quiets the nausea, neuralgia and other symptoms which the addict surfers while quitting his habit...
...Since the nerve cells controlling muscles are destroyed by this affliction, it cannot be hoped that a cure will be found after those cells have become seriously infected. Instead, some way must be found by which the occasional susceptible person can be made to resist the virus. Immune serum has already been used for early treatment; but the difficulty of experimenting on children, and of finding comparable untreated cases, has been a serious drawback in this investigation. It is known, however, that because of the mildness of early symptoms in some children, the disease would not be recognized...