Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Sculptor Donato was again compelled to sally forth in defense of Philadelphia art works when he heard that another WTA crew, furbishing up for the forthcoming Democratic National Convention, was busy scraping down the bronze statues in City Hall Plaza to make them "look like new." Such treatment would remove the bronzes' cherished patina, which comes only from long exposure to atmosphere, rain, dust and pigeon droppings. Tearing off his blue smock, Sculptor Donato dashed from his studio shouting: "This time I am going to give them hell...
Malaria: "a few deaths." Dysentery: one epidemic in southern Somaliland, no deaths. Typhus, typhoid fever, relapsing fevers: no deaths. Beriberi and scurvy: no white cases. Cholera and plague: not one case. Chief mortality was, next to Ethiopian bullets, from sunstroke which was eliminated last November by prompt treatment of the first symptoms...
...which has delayed for 20 years his marriage to Tessie Weeks (Mary Boland). To secure a gigantic glass-eye order from the owner of a doll factory (George Barbier), he takes his bride to a sanatorium where the doll maker is recovering from an odd disease for which the treatment consists of running around barefoot...
...developed and practiced in Russia. U. S. S. R. scientists discovered that drawing blood from pigs makes them fat. In experiments conducted by the Voronezh Meat Combine, 44 pigs were bled periodically and in amounts according to body weight. Thirty-two control pigs were given identical food, shelter and treatment, but no bleeding. After seven weeks the bled pigs had gained an average of 3 lb. more than the others, 30 of them were fat enough to be classed as lard pigs. Only one of the unbled animals made the lard-pig grade. The blood drawn off was saved...
...same time patients have lost their jobs and savings. If actually impoverished, Californians have the right to free treatment and maintenance in the tax-supported county hospitals which citizens set up in better times. During Depression many a citizen who could have paid a private doctor some sort of fee has lied, wheedled or grafted his way into a free county hospital, to the anguish and anger of private practitioners...