Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Jan. 28 article goes into great detail about the personal expenditures of the royal family and some of the skeletons that are in its closet. This treatment of the situation, which is as difficult for Americans to understand as our mores are for the Saudi Arab, is immature. There is no doubt that Americans are irritated by some Saudi laws, but it should be remembered that the Saudis might also be irritated by some American customs. It is, after all, their country. JOHN BOLES Assistant Professor Loyola University of Los Angeles Los Angeles...
...Tatsuo Doi. Though his archdiocese is not large (26,586 Catholics in a population of 10 million), Archbishop Tatsuo Doi has a strong claim in the fact that Peking has a cardinal, Thomas Tien, now in exile at Techny, Ill. (Cardinal Tien came to the U.S. in 1951 for treatment of a heart ailment, and this was felt by some Vatican critics to have broken the tradition that a prince of the church must remain at his post in time of danger...
...Britain's authoritative Lancet, acne gets the full treatment from a top Harley Street skin specialist, Robert M. B. MacKenna. Balancing himself between the do-nothing and try-everything schools, Dermatologist MacKenna takes the view that "acne vulgaris is a normal accompaniment of adolescence and is an abnormality only when it ceases to be very mild and is obviously noticeable." For this second type he deplores the it-will-go-away brushoff and gets down to cases...
Since the male hormone testosterone is believed to trigger eruptions of acne, some physicians have tried treatment with female hormones. But if these have any effect, they also feminize the boy patients. For this condition, as for strokes (TIME, Feb. 4) and for coronary atherosclerosis, researchers are trying to make a female hormone that does not feminize...
...consideration. To double-check his findings, Dr. Kissen studied patients whose TB, once fully controlled, had flared up again. Among these, he found 60% whose personality and history fitted the pattern. The prevalence of the pattern set Dr. Kissen to wondering: Since removal of patients to a sanatorium for treatment entails breaking love links, especially for children, is it a good idea to move so many of them? If at all possible, he suggests, patients should be treated at home under proper safeguards...