Word: cures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formerly doctors had removed the sympathetic nervous system to ease the pain in such cases but it was merely a relief not a cure. It has not yet been definitely established why the operation has these beneficial effects. Doctor Cutler was assisted by Doctors Herman L. Blumgart '17, associate professor of Medicine, and Doctor Samuel O. Levine '10, assistant professor of Medicine...
...last week, but U. S. Public Health Service investigators, three of whom anonymously permitted themselves to be bitten by mosquitoes which had bitten patients thought the St. Louis epidemic was on the decline. Understandable is the anxiety which many a Midwesterner feels over the spread of encephalitis. Cause and cure of the disease are still unknown. The Public Health Service has begun field work at Independence, Mo., where 50 cases of encephalitis were last fortnight reported. -ED. "Cheap Bronze Plaque" Sirs: -Harmsworth Cup. . . . There is always one serious mishap in the Harmsworth Cup races. . . ." (TIME, Sept. 11). Let TIME...
...founder who left Harvard College because of faulty eyesight, but Richard Henry Dana Jr., a member of a distinguished Boston family. He shipped before the mast, while an undergraduate of Harvard, to cure a weakness of the eyes which threatened to spoil his career. On his return he graduated from Harvard and became an eminent lawyer. Two Years Before the Mast, a book he wrote describing his voyage, made him famous...
...requested to write something for the Imperial Theatres. With his brother Modeste as librettist, weary Piotr Ilyitch sat down and produced his last opera, lolanthe, a little idyll about a princess of Naples who did not know she was blind because she had been so from birth. Cured by Ibn Hakia, who strokes the long white beard appropriate to a Moorish sage, she marries the noble whose love made her cure possible. Tchaikovsky speedily became engrossed in this wistful idyll, achieved a brightly lyrical score rare among his mature works...
...experts to join the three already there. It made him decide to ask President Roosevelt for $25,000 from the $400,000 Federal fund for combating epi- demics. In the laboratories of Washington and St. Louis Universities medical scientists worked desperately to find the disease's cause, carrier, cure...