Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours without a break, and much of the time without lights, the Consort's surgeon tended the wounded in a wardroom littered with bits of human tissue and bloodstained clothing. The wounded were lined up on deck waiting to receive treatment; Petty Officer Harry Greening stood patiently at the end of the line, with an injured hand. The Red fire got hotter. Greening moved up: "Excuse me, sir, but I think I ought to get looked after a bit sooner now. I've been hit again." He was; his kneecap had been shot away...
Last week a new experiment in treatment, the result of 20 years' work, was announced by four Mayo Clinic researchers: Dr. Philip S. Hench, an authority on arthritis, Dr. Edward C. Kendall, who isolated the thyroid hormone (TIME, Nov. 8, 1937), and Drs. Charles H. Slocumb and Howard F. Polley...
...Mayo doctors cautiously said that it was too early to use even the word treatment "except in an investigative sense." Some doctors thought that Compound E, even though it did not cure, might be used, like insulin for diabetes, to control the disease. Others feared that it could not be used for long without upsetting the body's whole glandular system. The argument would not be settled for a long time. Meanwhile, Mayo doctors warned that Compound E is very scarce, hard to produce, and may not be available generally until...
...Herald said that Cohn is "opening up secrets locked in human blood since the beginnings of time--and the possibilities in terms of curing human ills are incalculable. . . For the first time, living white blood calls can now be isolated for study and treatment...
...history is being written with blood," and went on to say, "Just what the isolation of living white blood cells will turn up, scientists cannot predict at this time. But. . . one important use may be the introduction of living white blood cells into the bloodstream f a patient under treatment for cancer...