Word: goitered
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...Saul Hertz, instructor in Medicine in the Medical School, has announced that he has founded an institution, The Radioactive Isotope Research Institute, whose purpose is to apply radioactive fission products to the treatment of the thyroid cancer, goiter, and other malignant growths...
With the breakdown of the father-dominated family and the emancipation of women, Dr. Halliday finds, there has been a significant sexual shift in psychosomatic diseases. In the 19th Century more women than men got ulcers and exophthalmic goiter; since 1900 it has been the other way around, increasingly so. During the late 19th Century, twice as many men as women got diabetes; by the 1930s there were two or three women with diabetes to every male sufferer. Dr. Halliday, who is married and the father of two children, comments: "The personality type of male was apparently becoming in some...
They interviewed policemen's wives, as part of a Herald-American crusade for pay raises for cops. But when they started snooping around the Case of the Murdered Bride, all the other news of the day was shoved back among the goiter-cure ads. The story was a natural: the victim had worked as a dice girl in a gin mill and she had been married just two days. When she was found dead in a ditch, the hunt for her husband was on. Connelly and Drury found him. While the Herald-American pulled out all the stops (HERO...
...easy: just send patients to a climate with the right aran content or treat them in aran-conditioned hospitals. Pulmonary T.B.. says Dr. Curry, heals much faster in aran-rich air. He thinks that aran, and the theories developed from it, might also be used in treating schizophrenia, goiter, sterility...
...battery-operated device called the "Electreat" for giving a harmless electric shock. Before the manufacturer was enjoined by the Food & Drug Administration, "Electreat" was represented as helpful for goiter, kidney trouble, heart pain, broken bones, childbirth paralysis and deafness. Price: $19.50. Sales: 4,000 a year...