Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ready Treatment. Soon strange reports began reaching health authorities. In the Algerian village of Saint-Cyprien-des-Attafs, a French mother tried to cure one child of boils and prevent three others from getting them by giving the kids Stalinon. Within days, the four children, aged seven to 14, were dead. Here and there around France people suddenly and mysteriously dropped dead...
...respect for the intellectual, France yields to no nation, but its treatment of its universities is something else again. Last week the French were pondering the implications of a wave of protest marches and demonstrations that swept through every university town. There was no violence, but, warned Chemistry Professor Charles Prevost in Paris: "This is our last peaceful demonstration. The next time we will go on strike." Among the universities' major complaints...
...Every male reader with an underemployed female relative will feel his heart sink at the news that "I read various works on sociology . . . This led to my joining an organization called the Moral Education League . . . and it also led to my becoming a visitor to [a] hospital for the treatment of venereal disease. I read to the patients and sang to them." Emy's distinguished husband was impatient with all this: "I wanted mental stimulus whereas he wanted fun and relaxation...
...hilt by Eileen Herlie, a script that often plods as it perplexes, and that perplexes less and less as it proceeds, just manages to squeak through. With a stylish, long-discontinued look, Actress Herlie can rivet attention; with a bass-fiddle-deep laugh, she suddenly arouses laughter. The Guthrie treatment fares best when there is nothing much to treat: the air of secrecy proves more rewarding than the secret, the theatrical Herlie-burly than the philosophical coda. When the play finally turns serious, it seems, more than anything else, like a last-minute spoilsport. Were the play better...
Died. Dr. Manfred Joshua Sakel, 57, Austrian-born U.S. psychiatrist, originator of insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1927, while treating a famed European actress who was a diabetic and drug addict, Dr. Sakel accidentally administered an overdose of insulin, was amazed to see her craving for morphine subside. Theorizing on the correlation between physical and mental illnesses, he went on to try his overdoses on alcoholics and schizophrenics; in both cases the patients improved...