Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mississippi Treatment...
...Institute asks is that its patients bring a disease on which the staff is currently working to inform the medical world. Patients currently under treatment are suffering from pernicious blood diseases, nephritis, advanced heart failure, rheumatic fever, chicken pox, measles, acute respiratory ailments. The hospital's standing invitation reads: "Suitable patients may be referred to the hospital by physicians and others who are interested. . .". An ambulance will be sent when necessary." But not many doctors want to surrender their patients to the Rockefeller Institute Hospital. Sometimes an East Side drunk wanders in. Sometimes a motor car strikes a pedestrian...
...reading it carefully that the facts as noted in this case were accurately described, that blindness did exist during a number of months and that sight was restored as promptly and as completely as the writer states. The condition is not one infrequently met in medical practice and the treatment employed was almost precisely that followed by any intelligent and qualified doctor of medicine under like circumstances...
Artificial fever of 106.7° is a newly discovered, specific cure for gonorrhea. But only the sturdiest of individuals can endure this treatment (TIME, April 12). Also, it is relatively expensive, requiring a hot box and constant attendance of a specially trained nurse...
...Colston's discovery of gonorrhea's simplest treatment is the result of a vast medical centre functioning ideally. Several months ago Johns Hopkins' Dr. Perrin Long heard of London experiments with Prontylin. sped there for first-hand investigation, sped back to Johns Hopkins for experiments on patients suffering from streptococcic septicemia. hurried into print and onto lecture platforms with his reports. Dr. Long and Dr. Eleanor Bliss, who collaborated with him throughout on streptococci, next applied Prontylin to the meningococci which cause spinal menngitis. The meningococcus is a close relative of the gonococcus and Dr. Long, busy...