Word: treating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctors are educated to treat disease chiefly by means of drugs and surgery. Nonetheless, they habitually use such homely adjuncts as hot and cold applications, baths and massage. In recent years some doctors analyzed the therapeutic effect of such physical agents, tried their hands at others. As a result a new specialty of physical medicine gradually developed. Called physical therapists, such doctors treat disease by heat, massage, baths, exercise, rest, work, radiation and electricity. The specialty is still not sharply defined. On one hand physical therapists must combat the tendency of other doctors to treat them as if they were...
That grand picture of Clark Gable on your front cover (TIME, Aug. 31) was a real treat. And the very revealing article on radio programs in general, and the Hollywood hours in particular, was most interesting. The fact that Louella Parsons is in cahoots with Hearst is all many people will .want to know about her. The Parsons' introductions, gushy and mealymouthed, are thorns in an otherwise enjoyable bowl of soup. How different from those of De Mille, Hughes and the informal Mr. Crosby...
Year later when the exhibition opened in Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory, newspaper critics who were uncertain how to treat Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, leaped at the Nude Descending a Staircase as a safe object of ridicule. Daily stories announced that it had been hung upside down, that it was the work of a madman. The picture was promptly bought by the late San Francisco Art Dealer Frederic C. Torrey who sold it to Author Walter Arensberg...
...devised his own condensers, experimented with distilling apparatus, tried one solvent after another. In August 1929 he reported isolation of the hormone in pure crystals. It was present in the parent fluid to an extent of one part in 4,000,000. Since then theelin has been used to treat hemophilia, periodic migraine, menstrual disorders, infantilism, frigidity, delayed puberty, physical and psychic malaises associated with the menopause...
...dial was blatantly labeled "Blood Pressure Indicator for SYSTOLIC PRESSURE." For 10? passers-by were invited to "READ YOUR OWN BLOOD PRESSURE."* To protect himself from the serious charge of practicing medicine without a license, Concessionaire Males set up big signs reading: "Attendant is forbidden to diagnose, prescribe or treat under any circumstances. The only purpose of this (non-stethoscope) machine is to let you read your own blood pressure, and nothing else. For a true medical interpretation you are referred to your Family Doctor. . . ." A State medical inspector, egged on by irate doctors, ordered Barnet Males to get himself...