Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lived in Spain and maintains a keen interest in its life and problems, I found your treatment of that troubled country judicious and accurate...
...lived in Spain for five years and never once felt as if I was in a "police state." I am married to a Spaniard who shows no signs of being oppressed by his government. I strongly protest the treatment of General Franco by the American press in general and TIME in particular...
...Kremlin is beginning to lose his bounce. He is overweight (5 ft. 5 in., almost 200 lbs.) has high blood pressure and a heart condition. According to one rumor, he is receiving injections of water and procaine (better known by the trade name Novocain), a dubious treatment devised by a Rumanian woman doctor to retard the aging process. He has limited his partygoing, restricted his diet, cut out hard liquor. Nowadays, says Khrushchev, wagging a finger at First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. 66, "he is the drinker, while I am the talker...
...began as a sore throat and pain in the ankles soon developed into a full-blown case of Still's disease-he name given to rheumatoid arthritis when it attacks children. Betty was sent to a hospital for intensive care of her swollen joints. Main item in her treatment was heavy dosage with hormones of the cortisone family, which relieved her pain and kept her joints reasonably flexible. But Still's disease weakens a child's bones and hampers growth; ironically, cortisone aggravates that part of the problem. By a feedback mechanism in the body...
...removed, or even earlier, when it is inactivated by an injection of procaine (Novocain). More than 75% of all patients get some relief, reports Dr. Overholt; and in 50% or more, the relief is significant and sometimes dramatic. All his patients have been asthmatics for whom no other treatment, from portable respirators to electric shock, was effective. Most important, whereas previous nerve surgery for asthma sometimes disturbed the blood pressure or heart rate, no ill effects have yet been detected from removal of a carotid body...