Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operations which Drs. Brickner, Peet and Penneld described in London last week are evidences of a growing emphasis among doctors. Where physicians cannot cure with drugs, psychiatrists with suggestions, manipulators with physical therapy, surgeons with excisions, nerve specialists are daring to meddle by disconnecting parts of the body's signal system. Along this line is the work of the Mayo Clinic's handsome senior brain surgeon. Dr. Alfred Washington Adson. Dr. Adson told the London Congress the technique, which he worked out with a Mayo associate, Dr. George Elgie Brown, of stopping Raynaud's Disease. This...
...improvement, varying from the relief of headache to apparent complete cure; 10% not benefited. About 15% seemed to be cured...
...years of recorded medical history. Yet Dr. Michael, in his two cardinal discussions of acne vulgaris, was obliged to state: "The pathogenesis of the disorder is still lacking. . . . The therapeutic problem is not yet satisfactorily solved." Doctors, in plain words, do not know the cause of acne, nor its cure...
...bathing it imitates. With only two bathhouses operating last year Saratoga Spa gave 101,449 treatments at $1.25 to $1.75 a bath, $1.50 to $2.00 a colonic irrigation, 1? a tumbler of mineral water. With the whole establishment running, Saratogans expect 25,000 visitors to take the Saratoga cure each year and spend some $5,000,000 in the city where heretofore bank accounts fattened only during the August races...
...music men who tried it in Chicago last week, is less complicated than the standard one which he hopes it will supersede. Chief feature is that it does away with eleven pounds of the lead which is used to weight all piano keys, especially those in the bass. No cure-all for music students, the Finholm action nevertheless lightens such pianistic labors as the octave tremolos and runs in display pieces. When put in wide production it may decrease the cost of piano making, may be installed in old pianos for about...