Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finishing touch to "curing me of my epoch" was added when Tony gave Mabel Dodge a dose of the Mexican drug peyote as a cure for dysentery. Awake all night, a clairvoyant vision showed her that "all this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight...
...confused with the old patent medicine SSS ("Swift's Sure Specific") which used to be sold as a "blood purifier" (i.e., syphilis cure), and now is sold as a tonic...
...price of rhubarb root (a cathartic) last week rose to 65? a lb., up almost 200% in the past three weeks. Ephedrine (a nasal astringent), which hay fever sufferers this month are using everywhere, similarly shot up 200% to $3 an ounce. Mandrake root, which Elizabethans considered a cure for sterility and druggists now use in physics, soared to $4.25 a lb. These convulsions in the minor Oriental drug trade last week were solely the effects of the war in China. Nor were they the only commercial effects in the U. S. To the confusion of economic isolationists...
Said Mr. Gay in his annual report: "I am fearful that, in an effort to cure what might be termed sporadic evils, undue restraints are being placed upon normal, proper action, thus creating abnormal market conditions. Evidence accumulates that the quality of the market has been seriously affected. With muc concern I note the continuance of narrow, illiquid markets in which wide spreads between bid and asked quotations prevail and in which comparatively small volumes of buying or selling create undue fluctuations in prices. Almost daily, situations are called to my attention wherein it is impossible to buy or sell...
...under the trade names "Prontosil" and "Prontylin," has been found effective in blood poisoning, gonorrhea, childbed fever, erysipelas, cerebrospinal meningitis and other bacterial diseases (TIME, Dec. 28, et seq.). Last week conservative bacteriologists of the National Institute of Health announced that this astounding new drug seemed to be a cure for an entirely separate class of diseases, namely, those caused by viruses. Among virus diseases are the common cold, influenza, infantile paralysis, parrot fever. Another disease due to a virus is "benign lymphocytic choriomeningitis," which was recognized as a distinct ailment only a few years ago because almost anything...