Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attacking the problem scientifically, the clinic uses the following method of increased reading ability: a paragraph of material is shown on the screen. Then it is repeated in short flashes of word groupings, until the paragraph has been seen, not in its entirety, but as a collection of word-groupings...
...President left Washington immediately after his appearance at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day. His method of travel to and from Africa is a military secret. For the rest of the trip he used a Douglas C-54, flying in it to Cairo and Teheran and back from Teheran to Cairo, Carthage, Malta, Sicily and finally to Dakar. His mode of travel from Dakar home was not disclosed...
Plasma and extract mixed together can be used to save bloody stitches on a liver cut by a bullet, a blow or an operation. The doctors tried it on dog livers first, now use the method on people. The raw surfaces are painted with the mixture and held together about three minutes. Any spot still bleeding or unstuck is repainted. As with skin-grafting, results are 100% successful: "By the end of ten days, it is often difficult to find the line of incision without a microscope...
...Sano hopes her method may be used in the treatment of war wounds...
Fashions in Surgery. Castration as a method for checking prostatic cancer is once more in fashion. It was abandoned in the '90s because it did not cure, revived in the '30s because many doctors believe the temporary relief it offers is worth while. The operation is often supplemented by continuing doses of female sex hormones. Many patients refuse the treatment...