Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portland, Me., Lyndon exhorted the flailing, roaring mobs to join him in the "Great Society," and followed his speeches again with the bruising foray into the arms of well-wishers. In Baltimore, where he addressed the students and faculty at Johns Hopkins University, he got the same treatment, autographed a baseball and the plaster cast on a youth's broken hand, dandled a tot, made it a point to praise Johns Hopkins President Milton Eisenhower, Ike's brother, as a "distinguished" man who had provided the nation with "wise counsel through the years...
...across the U.S. were swamped last week with anxious pleas for "that new drug that makes twins or quads." The furor was touched off by the disclosure that at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center a New York City woman who had been barren for six years had borne quadruplets after treatment with a new hormone preparation. The drug has not only promoted fertility in many of the cases in which it has been tried, but has also increased the likelihood of multiple births. Of 21 women treated at Columbia, 15 became pregnant, and the seven completed pregnancies have produced three single...
...used to be a relative rarity. Old-fashioned iron tonics went out of style in the U.S. long ago, and even when they were around, no child would take more than a swallow of the vile-tasting stuff. But now doctors have learned to use iron tablets in the treatment and prevention of one common form of anemia, especially in pregnant women. And to make them easy to take, the tablets are usually chocolate-or sugar-coated and are brightly colored. They look and taste so much like candy that iron poisoning of small children is becoming increasingly common...
Last week two toddlers in Charleston, S.C., owed their prompt recoveries and probably their lives to the fact that young doctors remembered having read during the past year of a new and highly effective, but still experimental, treatment for iron poisoning. Lieut. Commander Lawrence G. Thorne, 31, was on duty at Charleston's U.S. Naval Hospital when two-year-old Michael V. Tate, son of a radarman, was brought in critically ill after swallowing from 30 to 60 of his mother's iron pills. Dr. Thorne quickly ordered blood transfusions and put the child on EDTA, a chemical...
...dose. Another was located at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, and this time an Air Force plane picked it up. When Larry was finally out of danger, Dr. Paul said: "I think the Desferal probably saved his life, and it certainly made a big difference in his response to treatment...