Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When six Russian women medical scientists touring the U.S. met the press in Washington last week, they offered a nose-wrinkling bit of news. Said Dr. Antonina Shubladze of Moscow's Institute of Virology: the Russians have an effective treatment for Asian influenza, to be taken like snuff. The nonprescription remedy costs one ruble (officially 25?) for a three-day supply, but only one sniff is needed if the flu victim takes it promptly the day he begins to ache and sniffle. Explained Dr. Shubladze: the influenza virus is inoculated into horses, which are later bled. Serum from their...
...Public Health Service experts said politely that horse-serum preparations can cause severe reactions, that it is hard to evaluate a treatment for so short-lived a disease as Asian flu. By coincidence, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a strong warning the same day against any false and misleading claims by drug manufacturers "that products of limited benefit can effectively prevent or cure Asian flu ... The public should be on guard...
...protein-free extract prepared from glands in the brains of beef cattle shows great promise in the treatment of chronic schizophrenics and other mental patients, a Harvard Medical School researcher reported yesterday...
...Altschule, who is also director of internal medicine and research in clinical physiology at McLean Hospital in Waverly, emphasized the great promise of the treatment. He stated that behavioral improvement was maintained during and after the treatments...
...Joio. It is a well-scored and serious work by one of our leading contemporary composers, and a good work for an amateur orchestra to perform, being neither too difficult nor too trivial in content. The orchestra played it well, and one particularly difficult variation received an unexpectedly virtuosic treatment...