Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bing" or "Klondike" is what convicts in Philadelphia's County Prison at suburban Holmesburg, Pa. call it: a narrow, thick-walled little brick cell block where fractious inmates are put for "treatment." It holds nine cells, each 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, 10 ft. high. In each cell are a small sink with one spigot, a "hopper" (toilet) and six bolts in the wall for cots. Walls & floor are rough concrete, doors sheet steel, with small ventilating holes at the bottom. Three windows and several small roof outlets comprise the ventilation of the building. Across a two-foot...
...Klondike's" temperature rose to more than 150° F. in the "treatment cells, bedlam raged. Tearing their clothes off, gasping for breath, the tortured men roared and screamed for hours. When guards came with breakfast the third day, they found 21 of the prisoners unconscious, four (two in each of two cells) dead on the floor-bruised, gouged, discolored, parboiled...
...principle" to a pact whereby: 1) Hungary would be relieved of her obligation under the Treaty of Trianon (1919) not to rearm; 2) Hungary and the Little Entente would refrain from employing force of any kind against one another; 3) the Little Entente would speedily arrange for better treatment of Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia...
...animals, or the breath of infected humans. Pneumonic plague usually enters through a bite in the arm, travels rapidly to the lungs and spleen. The patient has a high fever, coughs constantly, cannot get his breath. Usually in three or four days he is dead. There is no specific treatment for plague patients. Antiplague serum, made from immunized horse blood, has not so far proved of great value...
...fact accompanies this family in its exile: hemophilia. Unlike thrones, hemophilia is not transmitted from father to son, but from mother to son. Contrary to popular belief, hemophiliacs do not bleed incessantly, but the flow of blood, once started, takes a longer time to coagulate. Most of the recent treatment depends on the, theory that the elements of hemophilia are present in the female, but are held in check by some female "essence." Injections of placental extract or ovarian extract have been partially successful...