Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cure Must Begin at Home
...diseases are more mysterious than viral hepatitis-a liver inflammation for which there is no known cure, caused by at least two elusive viruses that no scientist has ever seen. Operating under a dozen aliases (e.g., bilious attack, acute yellow atrophy), hepatitis has occasionally been confused with such unrelated ailments as malaria and mononucleosis, was once believed to be a penalty for excessive drinking. During World War II hepatitis was epidemic in the armed forces of the major combatants as well as in many civilian populations, and more than 170,000 cases were reported in the U.S. Army alone. Because...
...Edinburgh Scotsman for $3,000,000, or only $600,000 more than the construction cost of its 13-story plant. He pays ad salesmen more than reporters, likes to say "there's nothing in this business that a few thousand dollars worth of advertising won't cure." But along the pathway to profit, Thomson picked up some of the instincts of a newspaperman. Selling the Empire News and getting rid of the Sunday Graphic makes good business sense, but even better newspaper sense : they are members of the British "popular press," which peddles sex and sensation for news...
Fact is. no drug will cure frigidity, and no surgical operation will repair an unhappy marriage-although neurosis-knotted frigid women occasionally have persuaded doctors to perform pointless hysterectomies. Frigidity, says Dr. Linden, is not an illness in itself; it is simply a serious symptom of deep-rooted psychosexual conflict. Linden's stark conclusion: "The situation may be resolved if the woman patient can be restored to a truly feminine position. This would be the task of psychoanalysis. But even the most intense therapy may not be wholly successful, and many women must resign themselves to a less-than...
There are other reasons, too, which do not find their cure in capital punishment. In the case of immigrants, the youths in question are dislocated from one society and placed flush in the middle of another. Given the impoverished community in which they live, given the economic insecurity confronting their parents, it becomes easier to see why the process of readjustment often manifests itself in socially unacceptable forms...