Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several years ago Dr. Manfred Sakel, 36, a University of Vienna psychiatrist, cured morphine addicts by dosing them with insulin. His theory: morphinism is due to too much adrenalin in the system; insulin counteracts adrenalin. By accidentally overdosing them with insulin, Dr. Sakel shocked some of his morphine patients into comas. When they recovered from the "hypoglycemic shocks," their personalities were remarkably changed. Since the problem of curing a schizophrenic is the problem of shaking up his ingrown personality, Dr. Sakel tried shocking doses of insulin on Viennese schizophrenics. Last week at the New York Academy of Medicine he frankly...
...Sakel cure is complicated, difficult and dangerous because the patient must almost die of insulin shock several times before he can collect and use his wits like a normal human being. Dr. Sakel applies his treatment in four stages. For two weeks or so, according to the patient's reaction, he administers increasingly large hypodermic doses of insulin. When the insulin doses become powerful enough to cause insulin shock (profuse sweating, coma), Dr. Sakel is ready for the second, or shock phase of his treatment. This consists of inducing coma for several hours a day for several days. This...
...make personal appearances to encourage the sale of "Old Champ" liniment. Negro Pugilist Jack Johnson was sued for $360.96 damages by his partner, Morris Botwen. Boxer Johnson declared the liniment Partner Botwen was marketing was not the same good "Old Champ" he had given friends for years to "cure toothaches, headaches or any other kind of ache...
...have long gnashed their teeth at the utter impossibility of correlating material for their general and special examinations. Professors have clucked their tongues sympathetically and suggested more intensive tutorial work. But tinkering with the tutorial system is a poor palliative for the hardship worked by the present system. The cure is course revision. The tutorial system is now lugging the heavyload placed in its lap by poorly organized courses. Instead of taking up problems arising from course lectures and readings, the tutorial system is trying to plug the gap between courses. This is an inefficient and half-baked...
...German Dye Trust. Dr. Horlein, director of the Trust's pharmaceutical research at Elberfeld, and Dr. Domagk, a chemotherapist, designed Prontosil's complex molecule of dyestuff. After Dye Trust synthetists made it. Dr. Domagk experimented on mice, found that it did not kill them, that it did cure them of streptococcic infections. Other German doctors tried the material on human beings, began to report success in 1935. Last June two London gynecologists reported encouraging results with Prontosil in cases of childbed fever...