Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stubbornest disorders to treat is painter's colic-lead poisoning. Two Alabama researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine that they have treated 19 cases easily and successfully with a trick salt called disodium calcium versenate. Lead replaces the calcium and is expelled in the urine...
Last week, as its guinea pigs continued their studies, Brooklyn felt that it had learned a good deal about how to treat students of maturity and experience. It had also learned that-academically speaking-the much maligned College of Hard Knocks can give a pretty good education...
...treatment of mental illness is in the throes of a revolution. For the first time in history, pills and injections (of two inexpensive drugs) are enabling psychiatrists to 1) nip in the bud some burgeoning outbreaks of emotional illness, 2) treat many current cases far more effectively, and 3) in some instances reverse long-standing disease so that patients can be freed from the hopeless back wards of mental hospitals where they have been "put away" for years...
...sustained, the ruling would establish a new precedent in Italian law, to the effect that any doctor has a legal as well as a moral responsibility to treat the critically ill, even though he holds no public post.* But at week's end, guilty and innocent, all four doctors were free to continue their practice...
...After medical societies and health officials protested, Maryland state legislators turned down an appeal for legal recognition as physicians from the state's 100-odd naturopaths (who treat diseases by "manipulation, diathermy, and exploitation of the body's natural curing powers...