Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conditions Scully said he found in his new Job. Without consulting his superior he began to correct them. Said he: "When there is a fire I don't wait to get permission to put it out." Inmates of a Los Angeles school for the blind were receiving harsh treatment, said he, from civil service employes. He questioned whether the death of a young inmate of Whittier State School near Los Angeles was suicide, as reported; said inmates were being grossly mistreated and cruelly punished. Last fortnight Dr. Rosanoff fired Frank Scully, later charged that affairs in Scully...
About the immediate cause of angina, doctors know practically nothing. They suspect that the violent pain arises from some kink in the nervous system. Standard treatment is rest, easy living. Anything may bring on an attack: anger, bad news, indigestion, physical strain, and each attack may be the last. A victim may live several decades, may die in an hour. To ease their agonizing pain, most sufferers carry a supply of tiny nitroglycerin tablets in their pockets...
Obviously this treatment is humane, and completely satisfactory to the waiters involved. In fact Bill Bingham's regime has been ever marked by a personalized sympathy with needy athletes, tempered only by his conviction that Harvard athletics must remain on an irreproachable pedestal...
...Cards. While the galleries were growing bored with the Great Debate, the public was also shifting in opinion. In its November issue FORTUNE'S Survey found: 1) that U. S. sentiment favoring equal treatment of all belligerents had increased by from 54% in September to 67% in October; 2) that approval of the President's foreign policy had declined from 69.2 to 56.2%; 3) that belief in Germany's chances of winning the war had increased from 8.3 to 15.3%; 4) that 84.3% of U. S. citizens want the Allies to win (83.1% in September...
...Germany [before 1920] . . . considerable attention was attracted to an operation which consisted of the bisection of one of the ethmoid [branches of the nasal] nerves. The results were . . . discouraging, since instead of curing hay fever, this procedure sometimes produced neuralgia, hemorrhages and double vision. . . . [In the U. S.] local treatments such as belladonna plasters over the kidneys and ice bags over the vertebrae were enthusiastically recommended. A worthy Ph.D. pleaded for selfdiscipline, fervently exhorting his hearers not to get the sneezing habit-which was very much like bidding a patient with a raging fever to keep cool. . . . Treatment ranged from...