Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During last fall's campaign, Democratic orators justly decried Republican give-aways in our Pacific Northwest National Forests. But they failed to expose a more dangerous give-away, growing preferential treatment for the big lumber companies by the Forest Service under the Eisenhower Administration...
...Radcliffe Health Service will continue to operate in its building on Brattle Street after merging with the University services in July. However, all the facilities of the University Health Services will be available for consultation and special treatment when needed...
...their onset by changes in the enzyme system before any other symptoms appear. This has already proved valuable in early detection of hepatitis, and Dr. Wróblewski has evidence of it in mouse leukemia. If the phenomenon is confirmed in human leukemia, it would mean that more effective treatment of this and perhaps other malignant diseases could begin sooner...
...they were undermined, the commander ordered the street nearest the most vulnerable wall filled with earth, heaping it up over the house roofs to the top of the wall itself. To prevent the house walls from buckling, they were reinforced from the inside with earthen buttresses. This was the treatment applied to Dura's synagogue. As a result, when the city finally fell about A.D. 256, the synagogue's paintings "were protected," Professor Kraeling writes, "from the ravages of the city's capture and from centuries of rain and sunlight by earth heaped about and above them...
Cocktails for Surgery. Improvements in treatment have kept pace. Amyl nitrite was formerly used liberally, and nitroglycerin only sparingly, as a last resort. Whisky was freely prescribed, and tobacco rigidly banned. Nowadays, Dr. Master notes, amyl nitrite is seldom given because it causes too general a dilation of the arteries. Nitroglycerin, on the other hand, is freely prescribed, not only after the onset of an attack but to head one off: "When activities known to precipitate an anginal attack are undertaken-coitus, walking uphill, walking after a meal, walking early in the morning, stepping out into the cold, or walking...