Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported a cure for some kinds of facial neuralgia by "repositioning" the sufferer's jaws. Dr. James Bray Costen, assistant professor of otolaryngology at St. Louis' Washington University Medical School, discovered that when the back teeth are extracted or wear down the mandibular joints which hinge the lower jaw to the skull are pulled askew by the powerful muscles of the face, press abnormally upon facial nerves, cause facial neuralgia, headache, earache, burning tongue. Dr. Costen cures those pains by repositioning the jaws with caps over eroded molars, false...
...done research at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he believes in the "osteopathic lesion." This "lesion" is supposed to be a mechanical maladjustment of a joint, muscle, ligament or other tissue in the body. By correcting such lesions by might and main osteopaths claim that they can cure virtually all diseases. Thus in Manhattan last week they reported the following cases...
...book shows off her direct, robust sincerity. A product of her childhood, she tells a story of much violence, dismisses in a sentence a circus fire in which "a sailor and nine Boy Scouts were burned alive." Her paintings have the quality her childhood instructors tried in vain to cure her of-a heavy hand. Her drawing is strong. The point of her pictures is always heartily obvious. Now at 59, she is a highly respectable figure in the British art world with her personal trademarks of a sombrero and velvet jacket, her hair in two buns over the ears...
...month depart from sound Republican doctrine. His cure was not to stop government spending, but to stop government borrowing. "In essence," declared he, "the system we demand is this: Tax everybody on the amount of money that he spends. We are all spenders. We must buy or die. The more we have to spend, the more we will spend. Hence, those who spend most will pay the most in taxes for the maintenance of government...
While Anthony Eden continued his rest cure in the country last week, his Parliamentary Undersecretary Lord Cranborne added to Britain's nervous tension by confirming reports in the House of Commons that the island of Helgoland, Germany's famed pre-War fortress in the North Sea, was being secretly fortified by the Nazi Government...