Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone recommended him. Methodical Author McGuffey whistled for the neighbors' children, read them each selection before he included it. In the monosyllabic First Reader, small scholars read of the lame dog, cured by a veterinary, which expressed its gratitude by searching out another lame dog for the same treatment. A Kind Boy freed his caged bird; a Cruel Boy pulled the legs from flies. A Chimney Sweep, coming upon a gold watch, manfully overcame temptation, was rewarded when his employer provided him with an education. Only grim note in this moral feast was the Tease, who frightened a playmate...
...Roosevelt popularized swimming pools for victims of infantile paralysis, and hydrotherapy has become a major activity of physiotherapists, special occupational ailments have become prevalent among those technicians. They must accompany patients in warm pools. Warm water makes them lose a pound of sweat during a two-to-three hour treatment. It also lowers their blood pressure. Chlorine, essential to sterilize the pools in which the sick bathe, causes a skin irritation which is almost impossible to cure unless the physiotherapist keeps, out of the water entirely. If the patient exercises alone in a small raised pool, the attendant must stoop...
...Duke was supposed to have returned to Italy primarily for kidney-stone treatment. Last week's developments explained further. Named new Viceroy of Ethiopia, to do the exhausting job of "civilizing" one of the most recalcitrant native peoples on the globe, was bristling Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, 53. The 64-year-old Duke of Addis Ababa resumed in Italy his post of Chief of the General Staff...
...Lynn, Mass., newshawks spied War Veteran Michael Collins, his dog, Madame Queen, and his duck, Mac, hiking along the road to Maine. Explaining he wanted treatment at the Togus, Me., soldiers' home, Veteran Collins said he, Madame Queen and Mac had hiked all the way from Phoenix, Ariz, in a year...
Last summer no reliable results came from anti-paralysis preventive vaccines (TIME, Sept. 9). This summer the U. S. Public Health Service and the Rockefeller Institute suggest spraying the nostrils with 4% sodium alum or tannic acid solution five or six days in succession in alternate weeks. This treatment toughens nasal membranes, definitely protects monkeys, at least does no harm to humans...