Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week. Publicity was not long coming his way when he waved a fat roll of typed paper at the arthritis specialists. The roll, said he, was 31 ft. long. All that yardage was needed to list the patent medicines sold over U. S. drugstore counters for the cure of arthritis. They included analgesics like aspirin, local balms like antiphlogistine, blood builders like ferric ammonium citrate. Some of their names: Joyzone Pain Analgesic, Clear Water Joint Ease, Rising Mist, Wizard Balm, U-Rub-It, Rivet Cold Breaker, Pain Knocker, Oil-O-Youth, Root-Tea-Na-Salve...
Drugs taken by mouth for arthritis are somewhat more efficacious because some of them allay pain, but none "is a cure for arthritis because there are a thousand causes of the disease and each cause requires separate treatment." Continuing his efforts to make vice look ridiculous, Dr. Mayers declared that "of 100 cases of sickness 80 will recover naturally; eight will die in any event, and only in twelve cases can the doctor be of any assistance." He made not a few practitioners in the audience look ridiculous when he concluded: "There is plenty of arthritis that is cured...
...sponsors may cash at the bank of U. S. chanty to get funds for an increased attack on this ancient disease. "Tuberculosis is more infectious than leprosy," declared Dr. Muir. But leprosy is more amenable to treatment. Drugs arrest the progress of leprosy, but they do not cure. They are simply "useful adjuncts" to good food and plenty of vitamins. Just as useful as chaulmoogra oil, upon which hopes have risen high, is "any kind of counterirritant. Acids painted on the leper's body sometimes cause the cells to react, multiply, and eat up the bacilli...
...evidence that the human body was an electrochemical machine which produced certain vibrations when healthy, certain other vibrations when sick. He claimed that he could diagnose specific diseases by means of a machine which resembled a radio receiver. By means of this "Oscilloclast" he claimed that he could also cure diseases, detect lies, measure love, determine parentage...
Fifty years ago in southern Indiana lived an Orange County farmer named Ballard, who had five sons. One of them, Edward, early showed enterprise. He used to deliver the laundry which his mother did for people who were taking the cure at neighboring French Lick. Soon he was graduated into a saloon in adjoining West Baden, next became a croupier in a gambling room run by a Negro in the West Baden Springs Hotel. In his mid-twenties he bought the gambling club for himself. After a decade or so more, he bought Brown's Hotel in French Lick...