Word: curing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saddest stories I have read lately, and one of the most depressing pictures I have seen this year, appeared in your columns under the heading, "The Bloodbath Cure...
...Gardenwell Park, a young medical student attempting to overcome his temporary impotence. With love and sympathy, tempered by detachment, he reassures her, as to her own value. He seduces her, simultaneously initiating into the only experience which seems to her to contain its own meaning and effecting his own cure. When he leaves, she suffers a relapse, but eventually struggles out of it. Dispassionately, she returns to her initial view of life as comic, absurd and ultimately conditioned by chance. Rejecting the mothering safety of adjustment, she chooses to preserve her own integrity at the risk of an isolation that...
...these problems pile up in Foucheval, who just doesn't hold together. His behavior is discontinuous, almost irrelevant from one act to the next. His insanity is never explained or resolved; Morrow just decides to cure it and throw a little irrelevant philosophizing into the bargain. He doesn't even respect the audience enough to pretend to continuity. There's just the mountain and the madman, like props...
Medical science has produced no drugs to cure or even treat diseases caused by the small, true viruses. Man's only defense against them is preventive warfare waged with vaccines. But newly won knowledge is broadening and intensifying this prophylactic attack on 14 major and minor diseases. Current status and prospects...
Through the National Institutes of Health last year, Government scientists spent $30 million to test no fewer than 50,000 potential cancer-fighting drugs. That measures the size of the job in achieving the chemotherapist's dream: an effective cure for the major forms of the disease. Last week the physician who treated President Eisenhower's ileitis, Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania, pulled together and appraised the results...