Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevents nerve deterioration. On a hunch, they injected from ten to 100 mgm. of pure, synthetic vitamin B 1 directly into the veins of persons suffering from Tic Douloureux. The injection was repeated every day for six days a week. To the scientists' surprise, after several months of treatment 42 out of 52 patients became practically "symptom free," required no further injections...
Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Failla and his associate, Japanese Chemist Kanematsu Sugiura, told how they confirmed this theory and discovered a powerful new treatment for cancer. If the theory were true, reasoned the scientists, water injected directly into a tumor after treatment with X-rays would increase the swelling of cancer cells, kill them more quickly...
...practical application of these findings," concluded the scientists, "nothing can be said at this time. If human tumors react in the same way to the combined X-ray and distilled water treatment . . . the range of successful application of X-rays in the treatment of cancer will be materially increased. For, at present, good results cannot be obtained in many cases because the tumor is so insensitive to X-rays that the large dose required to kill it will cause too much damage in adjoining normal tissue...
...grand scale of its theme and the fragmentary method of presentation. The cast of thousands, the romanticized history, the premeditated lavishness and panoramic effect--these are all present. But the story, which concerns the building of America's first transcontinental railroad, is amenable to this sort of treatment; and the screen version has been made with unusually great attention to detail. As a result, the atmosphere of frontier times--composed of the amusing savagery of the Indians, their reaction to "civilization," the lives of the railroad workers, and the machinations of big financiers behind the scenes in Washington--is vividly...
...have a brain specialist, child specialist, orthopedic specialist. . . . Two thousand of you can pay $25 a year for your families, and with the $50,000 you will have collectively, you can hire eight or more good doctors and specialists who will provide you with free examinations, free treatments, and free surgical operations. . . . You can have expensive equipment, preventive medical treatment...