Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purpose of the I. Q. is to sort out children of exceptional intelligence who are likely to need exceptional educational treatment. Last year some 250,000 U. S. schoolchildren, inmates of juvenile delinquent institutions and miscellaneous persons, had their I. Q.s scored by a revision of the Binet-Simon test, called the Stanford-Binet and published by Dr. Lewis Madison Terman in 1916. Last week Stanford University's spry, 60-year-old Psychologist Terman and his associate, Dr. Maude Amanda Merrill, were guiding through the presses of Houghton Mifflin Co. the first revision ever made in this prime educational...
...silver nitrate on its own merits. Said District Health Officer Dr. George C. Ruhland: "I have the highest regard for religion, but religious belief does not prevent blindness." Representative Virginia Ellis Jenckes of Indiana tried to soothe Committeeman Biederman's agitated scruples by suggesting that eye treatment was very little different from giving baby a bath. Soothed or not, the District subcommittee upheld medical science over Christian Science, recommended that the Senate amendment be stricken from the bill...
...women. At a time when our country is inclined to develop class, race or creed consciousness or hatreds the menace of a common enemy and the inspiration of fighting it together may have a sorely needed and deeply significant religious and moral force. Research, diagnosis and treatment will all reflect the increased interest and activity...
...Little saw that before he set out to propagandize laymen on cancer control, more doctors would have to be persuaded that an informed layman was a good patient. He also had to encourage more doctors to learn more about a disease whose treatment was plagued with tragic and humiliating failures. Three years ago, after many an appearance on the rostrum of many a medical and biological society, Dr. Little felt he had the doctors back of him. Logically, his next attack was on that group of cancer sufferers which is most numerous and amenable to treatment...
...Portland, Ore. boy of 9 and a girl of 7 stripped naked last week to show a group of local doctors how new treatments for burns had saved their lives. Immediately after their accidents, both had been bathed in tannic acid and silver nitrate. This treatment, which Portland's Plastic Surgeon Adalbert G. Bettman invented (TIME, March 18, 1935), "leatherized'' the burned areas and enabled healing to start...