Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate students involved in the two-year program in International Affairs at the Littauer Center. Continuing opposition to any real strengthening in the study of International Relations seems to be coming from men who believe that the area has not been sufficiently developed as a discipline to warrant separate treatment. Any broad approach to contemporary foreign problems can be little more than a close examination of "The New York Times in Retrospect," they theorize. This unreasonably academic argument, however, ignores the fundamental importance of objective conditions throughout the world in determining a coherent and workable American foreign policy. And since...
...millimeters of mercury that the exerted pressure would support), the pubococcygeus is healthy; if the reading is no higher than five, the muscle is in poor shape. With the Perineometer Dr. Kegel's patients practice pubococcygeal contractions and note improvement by progressively higher readings on the dial. This treatment is quickly successful in 75% of cases, Kegel reports...
...especially the particular cells of the skin over which he spilled the boiling coffee." So far it would seem that Dr. Selye has discovered only the obvious. But then he takes a bold, imaginative leap: "To understand the mechanism of stress gives physicians a new approach to the treatment of illness ... it can also give us all a new way of life." He spells out both...
Know Thyself. Medical science, says Selye, should now make the effort to combat disease by strengthening the body's own defenses against stress. It may do this not only by ordering rest or prolonged sleep but artificial hibernation or treatment with ataraxic drugs and others (including hormones) not yet discovered...
...Peace. An uneven but brilliantly pictorial treatment of Tolstoy's great novel, with some outstandingly good battle pieces; with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer (TIME, Sept...