Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer is yes. Their reasoning: the very trends in modern society of which they disapprove increase society's need for analytical help. They foresee a day when mental hospital beds will be reserved for only the most serious, immobilized cases, but the numbers of people undergoing analytic treatment will multiply tremendously. As Practitioner Westman put it: "In the future we shall be analyzing the supposedly healthy people who are walking around today, as well as the obviously disturbed ones. We hope to reach the point where we shall use psychology before a breakdown has occurred...
...Soto will have a forward-sloping hood, lower front fenders, new grille, bumpers and trunk lid. Dodge, Chrysler and Imperial will get much the same "dart" treatment...
Famed Pediatrician Lawson Wilkins and Gynecologist Howard W. Jones Jr. note twelve such cases in Pediatrics. Simultaneously, British physicians have noted the same phenomenon. It happens in some cases when heavy hormone treatment is given in the second and third months of pregnancy. Though the baby's true sex is determined at conception, its outward appearance can still be altered, through the 16th week, by hormones from the mother's bloodstream. In some of the abnormal cases, nothing need be done-the unusual appearance will fade gradually with growth. In the others, only minor surgery is needed...
This intersex abnormality is no reason for abandoning hormone treatment, the doctors agree. But two things are important: 1) if possible, the hormones should not be given early in pregnancy, or, if indicated, given only in moderate doses; and 2) the baby's real sex must be promptly established to avoid the danger that a girl will be raised as a boy, resulting in severe emotional damage when the facts are recognized...
State's 87 students soon found themselves totally bewildered. In the mornings they trooped to King George Medical College to join its 1,200 fulltime students in the study of the foundations of modern medicine-bacteriology, pathology, anatomy, diagnosis, and eventually, treatment. But in the afternoons they hiked back across town to the ayurvedic college. There they memorized the 2,000-year-old Sanskrit verses in which this medical lore is frozen...