Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rejuvenation. A specific use for Dr. Carrel's growth index is to measure the effect (if any) of artificial rejuvenation. Said he: "We should admit that no great imagination has been used so far in the development of those [rejuvenation] treatments. t is assumed that by grafting glands rejuvenation can take place. But it is very interesting to observe that neither [Eugene] Steinach* or [Serge] Voronoff or any of the men who have been interested in rejuvenation have attempted to verify whether or not their method of treatment has brought about a real result. After all, what should be done...
...post graduate course in obstetrics at Sloane Maternity Hospital. Sloane Maternity, with Presbyterian Hospital and other institutions, makes up Manhattan's splendid new Medical Centre. Negroes have contributed their mites (about $60,000) to that Medical Centre. Presbyterian Hospital, a component, was founded in 1868 to provide medical treatment for all persons without regard to creed, race or any other distinctions. Although Presbyterian Hospital now has no colored people among its board, staff, interns or nurses...
Such fate was nevertheless preferable to the treatment the blacks would have suffered as convicts or prisoners-of-war in Africa. Prisoners were put to slow torture and mutilation at the hands of the captor and his wives, vicious harpies who neatly carved out eyes, skinned off lips, and with sharp nails clawed out brains-succulent delicacy for the night's banquet. Convicts were killed by their own parents. In (none too authentic) pidgin English, dusky King Holiday confided to a client whose "factories" he kept well stocked with slaves: "All captains come to river tell me you king...
...Your treatment of the Democratic side of the present political campaign is to my mind grossly unfair. All Democratic leaders are referred to as bosses, and that elevated and altruistic gentleman, William S. Vare, is respectfully designated Senator...
...there was no surgeon at hand, J. Omera seized a kitchen knife and whittled away for three days until his toes were off. Then he bound up his bloody foot and tramped to Prince George, where a surgeon said he had performed the amputation so efficiently that no further treatment was necessary...