Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increasing. Some states, such as Ohio and Virginia, have gone far enough to induce wealthy people to move to less exacting commonwealths. Florida, going to the opposite extreme, is putting out a "Welcome" sign for these people*. Already numbers of them are there. Doubtless more will go, seeking good treatment in a taxing world...
...effects, continued their carelessness until they were fatally seized. A remedy for the poisoning, if it is not in too advanced a stage, is believed to be the use of intravenous injections of hyposulphite of soda, to dissolve the lead out of the tissues of the body. Under this treatment the other men affected appear to be recovering. The Standard Oil Co. temporarily closed its plant at Bayway. Meanwhile, thoroughly frightened, health authorities in parts of New Jersey and New York forbade
...language: ordered its secretarial to compile statistics and facts about it; refused the report of its committee "On Intellectual Cooperation" where French influence had exerted pressure against Esperanto; sustained Esperanto officially scarcely a month ago by urging "that the states, members of the League, agree to give Esperanto the treatment and rates of a 'clear' language in telegraphic and radio-telegraphic relations, as a practical auxiliary language of international communications side by side with the national languages used, and with this in view calls it to the attention of the organization for communication and transit" (i.e., the International Postal Union...
President Clarence C. Little of the University of Maine and Dr. W. T. Bovie, Professor of Biophysics at Harvard Medical School, have discovered a cure for rickets. The cure consists of a violet ray treatment, wherein the subject is exposed to ultraviolet rays projected by a Cooper-Hewitt lamp through a fused quartz window. Chickens?a kind of fowl peculiarly susceptible to rickets?have been experimented upon with a success which definitely establishes the cure...
...Significance. The treatment has not as yet been used on rickety (Continued on Page 20) children; but preparations have been made for so doing. In the solarium at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, a large window of fused quartz has been installed for use in child cases; and similar work is going on elsewhere. This quartz is, however, expensive. Until facilities are greatly expanded, the treatment must remain what it is?a cure for a limited number, not a widespread means of promoting the general health of children, stimulating growth and obviating the bone-troubles of the race. So used...