Word: curing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Into the Cure Column. First patient to get the benefit of Dr. Conn's aldosterone research was no tropic-bound G.I., but a 34-year-old Michigan woman whose high blood pressure (170 over 100) was accompanied by unusual features. She had muscular weakness and cramps, had to drink and urinate frequently; her low-salt sweat and abysmally low level of potassium in the blood indicated an excess of aldosterone. A medical team traced her trouble to a small tumor on her right adrenal gland, which was pumping out a flood of aldosterone although there was no excess...
Massive Medication. Although VD researchers are still arguing over whether some strains of the gonococcus are now resistant to penicillin, cure is almost certain if the treatment is intensive enough. To give the germs no chance. PHS experts recommend minimal doses of 1,200,000 to 2,400,000 units of penicillin for simple cases of gonorrhea and as much as 20 million units a day for such serious complications as gonorrheal arthritis and heart infection. For the few patients who cannot tolerate penicillin, several other antibiotics are almost as good...
...epigram that is chalked on a slate, such as Socrates' "All I know is that I know nothing," or Emerson's "Discontent is the want of self-reliance." From there the prisoners take it on their own, analyzing themselves and one another. But the strongest prompting toward cure is the living example of the ex-junkies themselves...
...rest at a practical one. Before the Civil War, he was an all-out pacifist; once it began, he was hell-bent on the destruction of the South. At a time when Utopian nostrums were the fad, Garrison fell for them all: religious perfectionism, phrenology, Graham bread (as a cure for neuroses), water cures, spiritualism...
...true. But too often, the effect of tutorial and the honors program is to make the student feel that the College is concerned not with his status as an individual but with his progress as a a scholar. And it is at least open to question whether the proper cure for a student's feelings of academic aveageness is to involve him even more completely in academic work...