Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breeding Place. Although they no longer suffered from typhoid themselves, they were human breeding grounds for typhoid germs, could pass the disease on to others.* The only treatment then known was the removal of the gall bladder (where typhoid germs often breed), an expensive and disagreeable operation that did no good if other organs such as the intestines had also become breeding places...
...psychological study, "The Quiet One" is thorough and well-connected. It uses no technical terms, but some of the manifestations of guilt complex and frustration may be rather obscure to the non-Social Relations major. The picture does not give a blueprint for the treatment of all juvenile delinquents, and it is certainly not a publicity handout for the Wiltwyck School. It attempts to show the effects of insecurity on a young boy's mind, and the extent to which care and affection can overcome those effects. As the narrator points out, "there is no happy ending" to Donald...
Money for the institute's future will come from streptomycin, the best treatment yet discovered for tuberculosis. By all the signs, there will be plenty of money to work with. Eight pharmaceutical companies pay the foundation 2½% of the price they get, now $1 or less a gram; production, steadily rising, has reached 8,000,000 grams a month, which means almost $200,000 a month income...
...somewhat crude nature" then does what it can to repair the damage. It can shut off some of the abnormal impulses by nerve-cutting operations such as vagotomy, or cut out diseased thyroids and hunks of stomach. But Surgeon Ogilvie has what he regards as more effective treatment: proper doses of idleness, for "idleness is a part of function." A change of occupation is often a good thing, too. The mind that has been driven too hard may do its best work when tension is relaxed and it is allowed "to find the natural paths that shape themselves in idle...
...simple and delicate story of "Torment" is given an over-all gentle treatment that, by usual film standards, could be said to drag at times. However, the producers deserve commendations for not playing up the sensational elements offered in the plot (leaving that, it would seem, to the able American press agents). "Torment" is the first intelligent filming of a non-idyllic adolescent love affair, I've seen...