Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the building will be equipped for treatment of patients with brain tumors, diabetic eye damage, Parkinson's disease, and breast cancer. Beams of atomic particles from the adjacent 160 million volt electron cyclotron will improve upon the traditional X-ray for treatment of localized tumors...
...persuaded the U.S., rightly or wrongly, that it could no longer win that war with Diem, was not so much that his regime was repressive, but that it had lost its ability to command the nation. By the unhappy standards of the mid-20th century world, Diem's treatment of the Buddhists may not have been spectacularly cruel, but it was thoughtlessly clumsy. The mandarin in the palace somehow seemed to have lost touch with reality-a reality that included the Buddhist self-immolations, perhaps the grisliest of history's propaganda gestures...
Deceptively Simple. The argument began in 1958, when the University of Minnesota's aggressively pioneering professor of surgery, Owen H. Wangensteen, described a deceptively simple treatment for a notoriously stubborn illness. He and his colleagues get the patient to swallow a plastic tube with a balloon at the end. When the balloon is in the stomach, the doctors run frigid alcohol through it, at a temperature around -4° F. After an hour or so, the patient's stomach wall is presumably frozen. This freezing generally cuts down the stomach wall's ability to secrete hydrochloric acid...
...Minnesota hospitals, two patients have had perforated gastric ulcers after freezing, and a few have needed transfusions to tide them over temporary bleeding. But all told, 1,200 patients in three carefully planned research projects* have had their stomachs frozen, and there have been no deaths from the treatment...
...fluoridation referendum, 16,802 people voted to end treatment of the City's water supply and 15,368 voted to continue it. The result came as a shock to those who supported fluoridation, since they had managed to get it approved by a 42-vote margin in a 1959 referendum, after losing by over 6000 votes...