Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johns Hopkins' Dr. Margaret Merrell went to work and rounded up the clinical records of 15,000 patients treated for early syphilis throughout the U.S. over a two-year period. Last week she announced her findings: 20 months after getting penicillin treatment, between 25% and 30% of the patients still had positive blood tests; How many cases were relapses, and how many reinfections? It was impossible to tell. The other 70-75% were apparently cured, i.e., they showed no clinical symptoms and had negative blood tests. But doctors still stuck to their cautious qualifications...
...strong impressions left by this study of scores of faces: 1) Russians are bitterly poor but their fortitude evidently goes as deep as their poverty; 2) religion, among religious Russians, is still a strong and deep-rooted influence; 3) children are treated with kindness and gayety, and the treatment blooms in their faces; 4) the Soviet bureaucracy, whatever its sins and shortcomings, appears to have a strong sense of responsibility toward the masses-if none toward individuals-and the masses respond with loyalty; 5) unlike the handful of official Russians who make the headlines, the millions of ordinary Russians represented...
...time spent than that offered by any other courses. Substitution of essays for hour exams and quizzes won emphatic praise. Furthermore, the dstinctive, approach outlined for GE courses from the start has been upheld: that brief coverage of numerous topics within a subject must give way to more thorough treatment of strategic considerations. Here the object is to illustrate the nature of the problems in a particular field and suggest possible methods of solution through the presentation of carefully-selected segments of knowledge. In vindicating the heart-matter of the General Education proposals the response of the first-year...
Jazz music receives three types of treatment from writers today: 1) complete disregard from those who prefer not to "stoop"; 2) lofty head-patting from classical critics who think Louis Armstrong primarily a movie comedian; and 3) intelligent reporting by explorers who know whereof they speak...
...pleasure to see TIME included in the very small group of publications which consistently and frequently doses its readers with healthy treatment No. 3. The Jimmy MacPartland story, as many previous such, is right in there...