Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professor Davis teaches veterinary anatomy at Indiana's Purdue University. She began working about 20 years ago with a virus that causes what farmers call "big-liver disease" in chickens. Ten years ago, Dr. Davis developed cancer in her lymphatic system, and had heavy radiation treatment. She compared cells from her own tumors with those from chickens. Said Dr. Davis, with scientific detachment: "They were very closely comparable microscopically to the lymphoid chicken tumors with which I had been working...
...mistake: they give too small doses of radiation to patients in the early stages of the disease, thus giving it more chance to progress. Of all U.S. Hodgkin's patients, only about one-third live five years after the disease is diagnosed, largely because they get too little treatment...
...past half-dozen years, a remarkable number of economic decisions have been affected by one persistent problem: the U.S. balance of payments deficit. To fight it, the Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates, the Administration pleaded for stable wages, Congress toughened the tax treatment of businessmen's foreign earnings and obliged tourists to cut back on their overseas souvenir buying. Last week the first estimates for 1964 heightened Washington's confidence that the U.S. at long last may be closing its bothersome and embarrassing deficit. Preliminary figures show that the deficit, which was $527 million...
...only treatment is to ease the pain, usually with external applications of alcohol. The only protection against Portuguese men-of-war is to keep away from them. In March and early April, when myriads of the purplish jellyfish are blown ashore by easterly winds, avoiding them is not always easy for Florida swimmers...
...work of it. And Actress Bacall, woefully miscast, exercises her steel-and-velvet charm as if she were running a rest home for demented Bunnies. Bacall's throatiest, most telling line: "I detest stupid people who think they can fake mental illness." Fortunately, nobody need submit to Shock Treatment unless he is dragged in screaming...