Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospects for such imaginative treatment were none too good. For several days after the blackout, the looting suspects swamped the city's already overburdened judicial system. They spent up to six days waiting for arraignment, packed in overcrowded, sweltering cells where faucets often dispensed only a trickle of water and toilets sometimes did not work...
...wife, two daughters and son, and a brother and sister; three other brothers died without even knowing what had become of him. In all his years of hiding Montalvo left the house only three times, on secret visits to Madrid doctors who knew nothing of his past, for treatment ol an ulcer and muscle paralysis...
Most doctors remain as skeptical as ever about Laetrile. Indeed, in still another refutation of claims about the substance, scientists at the Battelle Memorial Institute reported that new experiments with mice showed Laetrile offered no benefits whatsoever in the treatment of either breast or colon cancers transplanted from humans. Dr. Joseph Ross, a U.C.L.A. professor of medicine, also raised the "strong possibility" that long-term ingestion of Laetrile could result in chronic poisoning similar to that from the starchy cassava root, which, like Laetrile, contains cyanide...
During the months and even years when the disease is in a mild stage, the patient may need only aspirin-or no treatment at all. But when lupus flares up, doctors resort to more powerful weapons. Corticosteroids are commonly used to control inflammations. Skin rashes can be reduced by antimalarial drugs, and even the immune system's rampaging white cells can be brought under control by some of the same potent drugs used against cancer cells...
...result, the dialogue in Les Sauvages is not tight enough, the chase scenes ramble on and on and the characters seem to be thrown together rather than playing off each other for maximum comic peaks. More disappointing, however, is the fact that Rappeneau has failed to correct the sexist treatment of women so common in such comedies. Embodied in such catch-all phrases as "charming" or "crazy" lies a blatant sexist attitude which suggests that women wearing nothing but loosely buttoned men's shirts three sizes too large for them, or women who irresponsibly knock over lamps, smash holes...