Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boers' glorious freedom ended in 1814, when the Dutch ceded the Cape Colony to Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. The British brought in property laws, courts, and worst of all, government. Shocked at the treatment of the natives, London ordered all slaves freed, proclaimed Coloreds, Hottentots, and even Bushmen equal...
...Assurance. All this has alarmed the usually restrained New England Journal of Medicine, which describes the resistance-transfer process as "intellectually fascinating and therapeutically frightening." The journal gloomily suggests that "unless drastic measures are taken very soon, physicians may find themselves in the pre-antibiotic Middle Ages in the treatment of infectious diseases...
...finally foul shouting. Doctors have tried everything from psychotherapy to sedatives and carbon dioxide inhalation, which is akin to a form of shock therapy. Lasting cures have proved as rare as the disease, but Psychologist David F. Clark now reports in the British Journal of Psychiatry that the treatment is contained in the symptoms...
...inhibition about his own symptoms; indeed the man has since passed a driving test without swearing at the woman examiner. Two of Clark's patients have not relapsed during four years since therapy, although neither had found relief during many previous years of psychotherapy. Clark's treatment only partly helped a third patient, a 47-year-old housewife, because she was unwilling to swear on demand. Of course, restraining the symptoms may not be curing the disease; suppressed neuroses have a way of popping up in another form. But ulcers are certainly more socially acceptable than dirty words...
...reports. After that the death rate mounts steadily; the oldest patient on record is 36. The usual cause of death is the very problem that the infant encounters at first feeding: inhalation of food into the lungs, causing pneumonia, often coupled with heart failure. So far, the best palliative treatment for dysautonomia consists of using tranquilizers to help control the intense vomiting that characterizes the disorder. There is no cure...