Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later grew into his Church's $30,000,000 Pension Fund, his son was a tall, handsome Harvard senior, completing his course six months ahead of his class and returning to coach the fresh man baseball team. Schooled thereafter for the Church, Wr. Appleton Lawrence got his first cure in 1913, as assistant in Grace Church in Lawrence, Mass., where his forebears had owned mills and where his father held his first and only rectorate...
Listing $700,000 debts and no assets, Edward Fitz-Gerald, Duke of Leinster appeared in London's Bankruptcy Court to tell his creditors how he had embarked in 1928 on a lavish "prospecting" trip to find a U. S. bride who would cure his chronic financial trouble. The impoverished Duke, who once sold stock in himself as "The Dukedom of Leinster Estates, Inc.," said he was twice fooled by "possibilities," finally married Mrs. Rafaelle van Neck of Manhattan, no heiress...
...Famed blood test for diagnosing the disease. In 1910 Biochemist Paul Ehrlich, once more of Germany, after 605 laboratory experiments, finally hit upon a positive ure for syphilis. Popularly called 606 or Salvarsan, this Ehrlich remedy was technically a compound of arsenic known as arsphenamine. With the cause & cure well in hand, world medicine was fully equipped to move forcefully against one of the worst scourges of the human race...
Electricity may cure the diseased facial nerve and restore action to the features. When that fails, Surgeons Tickle and Sullivan splice a piece of healthy nerve taken from the patient's thigh into the dying nerve of his face. The frequent success of this reparative operation was spoiled by an occasional misadventure. In some patients the operation caused a mad, uncontrollable jigging and grimacing of the treated half of the face...
...this prattle about professional ethics, and with the A.M.A. in its sanctimonious stand as the sole arbiter of human health; I am vaguely reminded of one Louis Pasteur, chemist, and of how the medical confession, in a united front, battled his method of inoculation with virus to combat and cure hydrophobia...