Word: treating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medicine suspects any theory that germs cause cancer. Likewise Medicine is stubbornly skeptical of any theory that germs can be advantageously used to treat cancer. Dr. Coley invented his anti-cancer toxin, Coley's Fluid, 40 years ago. It is a mixture of the toxins produced by the germ of erysipelas and a harmless germ called Bacillus prodigiosus which grows on food. Prodigiosus toxin fortifies the action of erysipelas toxin. Together they have cured an appreciable number of people dying of cancer, and together they have in numerous instances prevented the spread of cancer to remote parts...
...Cures" have been just as multitudinous: caustics, serums, chemicals, hormones. But the fact remains that only by surgery, radium or x-ray does any reputable physician today treat cancer with any hope of success...
...they did by working, proceeded to picket while hogweed grew two feet high in the fields. One grower's home was bombed down, a warehouse burned. The village of McGuffey had to hire 50 deputy sheriffs to keep the peace. The Labor Board sent out a mediator to treat with the growers and the chief agitator for the weeders, a hard-fisted young man named Okey O'Dell, president of the Agricultural Workers...
...midgets in the theatre has long bemused Broadway. Keep Moving has not solved it, but droll, dust-dry Comedian Tom Howard has in one skit. The midget, dressed as a child in a blue "sleeper," comes onstage demanding to be told a bedtime story. Irascible Mr. Howard refuses to treat the midget as a child, tartly tells him he is old enough to be his father, contemptuously asks him when he is going to take out his first papers, offers him a cigar. The bedtime story, a fairly dirty one about a Round Table boudoir, is pantomimed by a voluptuous...
...that I mean that every sufferer should call in a capable physician to treat him. After a few days, the victim usually feels much better, compared with the way he felt while ill, and wants to go back to work and mingle with people. That is the danger period. He is still capable of transmitting the disease, and he is in danger of a serious relapse. He should remain in bed, or just lounge around the house, until his physician assures him he is fully cured...