Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of long, painstaking study of thousands & thousands of children in Berlin, Yankton, S. Dak. and Baltimore, Dr. Kanner decided that the cause of a child's misbehavior is more fundamental and important than the way that child misbehaves. By isolating the cause he can accomplish a cure in most cases and ameliorate the child's condition in all cases. He classifies such causes in three broad groups: 1) those due to physical illness; 2) those due to involuntary dysfunction of some organ of the child's body; 3) those due to derangement of the child's body & soul...
...tremendous number of children suffer from enuresis. Adenoids, flat feet, thyroid deficiencies and a score more reasons have been presented to explain bedwetting. Dr. Kanner says it is almost always due simply to lack of adequate training, general carelessness concerning the regularity of the child's habits. To cure a child of wetting the bed Dr. Kanner simply tells him that he can be cured, that he should not be ashamed, that he should help with all his might. Almost invariably children cooperate. If two or more children in a family are afflicted, they may well be set to keeping...
...growth and to cancer. We believe, also, that in this way it will be possible to make a cancer slowly disappear, by re-establishing the organic defences which will take care of the growth, which will be absorbed slowly by autolysis, phagocytosis, or normal connective-tissue growth. Such a cure of cancer seems more logical than a specific remedy with power to kill cancer cells and leave untouched normal cells...
Since Adolf Hitler's organs of speech are rated by Nazis the Fatherland's most precious possession, Germans were busy last week setting up a special summer Realmchancellory at famed Bad Reichenhall, No. 1 resort in Germany for the cure of throat ailments, today a boomtown jam-packed with many a recuperating brownshirt Demosthenes...
...over. There, according to his mother, "he fell from grace." Back in Menard, Tex., where he worked occasionally at bricklaying, Ernest Elmer Baker made up for his lapse by the zeal with which he took up Pentecostalism in 1933. Pentecostalists roll on the floor and believe that prayer will cure anything, even a sliced artery (TIME, July 23) or a rattlesnake bite (TIME, Aug. 20). Last year Ernest Elmer Baker, 38, got the idea that it would cure Russian Godlessness. The Pentecostal saints, he told his friends, had called him to carry the gospel. In February 1934, Ernest Elmer Baker...