Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They must accompany patients in warm pools. Warm water makes them lose a pound of sweat during a two-to-three hour treatment. It also lowers their blood pressure. Chlorine, essential to sterilize the pools in which the sick bathe, causes a skin irritation which is almost impossible to cure unless the physiotherapist keeps, out of the water entirely. If the patient exercises alone in a small raised pool, the attendant must stoop over to give treatments and this often develops backaches. To avoid backaches and skin troubles, smart hydrotherapists wear cotton athletic suits inside light-weight waterproof waders which...
...managed. The whooping-cough problem is: Does a germ (the so-called Bordet-Gengoubacillus) alone cause the disease, or must that germ have some virus present in the throat and lungs before it causes whooping cough? Upon the answer depends the kind of vaccine or serum to prevent and cure the disease...
This reason Italians clearly understood when the Marshal said he was going to take the cure at Fiuggi, drinking its famed waters. Popes with gallstones gave the springs of Fiuggi their fame and today its bottled waters may be had in almost any city of the world. Last week learned Italians, sympathizing with their great Marshal, turned to the Italian encyclopedia, scanned the famous letter in which great Artist Michelangelo described how he was cured at Fiuggi in the year 1549 as Marshal Badoglio may well be cured. Wrote Michelangelo: "I am immensely better. For about two months I have...
Continuismo is the word which Latin Americans use for their Presidents' bad habit of trying to continue in power after their terms have expired. When the U. S. Marines left Nicaragua in 1933, they left behind them an idea of a cure for continuismo: a constitution that forbade a President to be succeeded by a kinsman; and a potent, nonParty, Marine-trained National Guard headed by General Anastasio Somoza, whose wife is President Juan Bautista Sacasa's niece...
Beatty's tortured concern over his symptoms, his delight when a doctor tries to cure him by tying his toe to his wife's ("modern medicine has made marvelous strides"), his involvement in a robbery and a murder, which he believes himself to have committed while sleepwalking, are above the average for double-bill comedy. Typical shot: Tessie Beatty, who believed she was on her way to Niagara Falls ("where Nature's majestic waters play a constant symphony"), reacting to the discovery that she is in a nut house...