Word: sanatorium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Hamsun and Publisher Knopf have produced some 15 Hamsun novels in the U. S. Chapter The Last is laid in the Torahus Sanatorium. There is The Suicide, so-called because that is what he threatens ever to do. He almost becomes normal when his wife comes back to him, but when the Sanatorium burns down she dies and he, ironically, escapes. Then there is a man going blind with what The Suicide calls "the barber's itch." Says he to The Suicide: "My eruption is only on the skin but you're sick inside." Other characters...
...25th annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis Association at Atlantic City last week provided a summary of the U. S. Tuberculosis situation. Estimated number of people infected: 900,000 cases. Sanatorium beds existing for their care: 67,270. Result: doctors, nurses, public health officials and the N. T. A. must get after cases roaming at large. Between 3% and 4% of children have childhood tuberculosis. Half of those children overcome their infection (by rest, good food, outdoor life). The other half develop true pulmonary tuberculosis (the type that kills) when they become adolescents. About the same number of boys...
...Harry Ford Sinclair neared a nervous breakdown last week, was taken from Washington to a sanatorium at Battle Creek, Mich...
Eight years ago Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger wrote a book, Tuberculosis and How to Combat it, upon the solicitation of patients at his Monrovia, Calif., sanatorium.* His philosophy of treating the disease for 28 years has included psychology with therapeutics. He lectures to his patients, explains to them the various ways that tuberculosis affects various people and their organs, why certain treatments are used, the ways of preventing the spread of infection. By answering all questions and avoiding obscurantism he has kept his patients from worry, that great handicap against treatment. His book, in which he organized his lectures...
Died. Major General Daniel Appleton, 77. of North Andover, Mass., retired publisher (D. Appleton & Co. of Manhattan was founded by his grandfather Daniel Appleton in 1825); at a sanatorium in White Plains, N. Y., where he had been ill for four years...