Word: treating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned of the many cults which growl on the outskirts of orthodox Medicine. Sign that Osteopathy may be absorbed in the great body of Medicine before many decades, much as Homeopathy was absorbed during the last century, is the fact that many medical orthopedists now use osteopathic techniques to treat diseases of the joints, bones and muscles. It is also a fact that most osteopaths are well-grounded in all the medical sciences and practice medicine scientifically, with well-tested reasons for their diagnoses, well-tested reasons for their treatments. Another sign of this evolution from cult to profession...
Miss Worthingham was vice president of the American Physiotherapy Association which was holding its annual convention in Los Angeles last week. Purpose of that body is to register men and women technicians who, under orders of a regular physician, treat "disease by non-medical means, comprising the use of physical, chemical and other properties of heat, light, water, electricity (except Roentgen Rays, Radium and Electrosurgery), massage and exercise...
...neuritis was real misery. In this ailment the nerves become inflamed. Those most often affected are the great nerves in arms and legs. Sharp pains dart along them, causing intense agony. Muscles may lose their tone, permit the limbs to dangle. The diagnostic problem is to discover and treat the original cause of the neural inflammation. This may be some toxin absorbed by the system, such as poisonous metals (lead, arsenic, bismuth, mercury) or carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis may be the result...
Merely from a selfish standpoint, one wonders at TIME'S so overlooking its own good as to treat in so slighting and supercilious a manner a religious teacher's writings which have benefited so many thousands. Not a shrewd policy, to say the least. The tone of the article is unfriendly and has the same note of "superiority" and caustic comment which has come to mark so many of TIME'S commentaries...
...conduct of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. which used to keep him constantly before the public. A relieved good-by to Dr. Machen & Co. was said last week by the Presbyterian Banner: "We have no unkind feelings toward these brethren but hope they will treat one another better than they have treated...