Word: treating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...health service of the University of Athens, where $3,000 from the Harvard Relief Committee pool has been allotted, reported 1,100 clinical cases of tuberculosis. To treat 20,000 students in the area there are only two doctors and two nurses. Sufferers frequently die in the common tenth month waiting period between initial examination and admission to the 30-bed state sanitarium...
Sixty-five years ago the superintendent of a Swiss insane asylum, Gottlieb Burckhardt, cured a patient of auditory hallucinations (hearing things) by removing part of his brain. Thirteen years ago Portuguese surgeons invented and other surgeons developed the now-popular operation called pre-frontal lobotomy to treat certain types of insanity...
...Libertarian Baldwin right? Many a U.S. citizen wished he were surer.*By now the U.S. was pretty well convinced, on the evidence, that all Communists in a democracy are potential spies and traitors; but the U.S. was still doggedly determined not to treat even a known Communist as a spy or a traitor until he was caught redhanded. That frame of mind was doubtless a source of grim amusement to Communists, who are logical people...
...using dental hygienists in schools, the cost, according to U.S.P.H.S. doctors, can be reduced t010? a tooth. A gallon of 2% sodium fluoride, enough to treat the whole school population in an average-sized community, costs 5?. But 16 treatments are needed-a series of four each at ages 3, 7, 10 and 13. Actually, there are not enough dental hygienists to go around. Dentists would have to charge their private patients up to $40 for the 16 treatments...
...Price jolted his listeners on a Brotherhood Week program by suggesting an official "Week of Hate." Said he: "It would be much better to have the one week in 52 dedicated to hate, a week when we would all be able to get the hate out of our systems, treat one another as badly as we know how, and then observe the remaining 51 weeks as Brotherhood Weeks...