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Word: curing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really amazing the way that psychology always comes through. We had known that it was a cure-all for mental disorders and that education had dipped into it a bit but now bicycling has stepped in and made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/3/1934 | See Source »

...after two years suffering with nervous indigestion. I tried a week's fast-induced by reading Upton Sinclair's articles on fasting as a cure. I ate nothing, drank only water. (Incidentally, I had just had my tonsils removed on the day my fast began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1934 | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

Marmola: "A quack obesity cure of the thyroid type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fat & Drugs | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...reduce-which, of course, is a fact-but that any reduction must be brought about by cutting down on the food intake. While this is the technical thesis of Jad Salts advertising the obvious intent seems to be to make the public believe that Jad Salts is an obesity cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fat & Drugs | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

Vannay: "Whatever reduction in weight may follow the use of Vannay is due to one or both of two factors: First, the laxative action and, second, the requirement - common to practically every obesity-cure nostrum on the market-that the victim, in taking it, should diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fat & Drugs | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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