Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 3,000,000 people in the U. S. who hobble around with stiff, aching joints are waiting for an arthritis cure. Doctors have tried warm baths, short-wave treatment, artificial fever therapy and vaccination, but have achieved few cures. Arthritis has over 65 variations and doctors cannot agree on any one cause. Certain it is that there is an arthritis type: a tired, nervous, constipated individual easily susceptible to colds and infections who may develop a full-fledged arthritis after a streptococcus infection, or a series of slight injuries to some organ...
...Edge of the World (Joe Rock). Documentary treatment of life on the bare, spray-soaked Scotch island of Foula, proving again, with superb views of Foula's cliff-scrambling denizens, that human existence is most photogenic where it is least cosy...
Most heroic of modern therapeutic measures is artificial fever treatment. If a patient with gonorrhea, St. Vitus' dance or atrophic arthritis is willing to lie snugly in a hot box or expose himself to short-wave radiation for periods varying from two to ten hours, sometimes several times a week, while his temperature is pushed up seven or eight degrees, he stands a good chance of recovery. Whether the intense heat kills the germs, or stimulates the body to produce germicidal substances doctors do not know. Only ill effect of intense heat was delirium, now prevented by copious draughts...
...radiation at all. Results: 1) the heated rats averaged one-third fewer errors per trial than the unirradiated rats; 2) the difference was consistent through the first 75 trials for each group, showing that the effects of radiation on the irradiated group lingered on for 30 trials after treatment was discontinued; 3) the irradiated rats lost their tails, gained weight more slowly than the unirradiated group...
...radiation stimulates circulation of the blood, sends more fresh blood through the brain and body. Whether increased intelligence might be obtained in humans he did not dare conjecture. Only mental result of artificial fever noticed so far is that the patient's outstanding personality characteristics are exaggerated after treatment...