Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...piece was generally regarded as audacious but dull; its treatment hardly living up to the provocative possibilities of its background. The play acted much better than it read when published recently in the American Mercury, but it maundered gloomily through scenes wherein a Negro of no great ability married a white girl, then discovered that he was so far above her in mental calibre that it hurt. His aspirations to ward a lawyer's career came between them, and in the end he renounced them to devote himself to caring for her ? whereupon she kissed his hands-Robeson...
...forcibly inoculated for diphtheria. Edwin had forbidden his flock to call physicians during an epidemic of the disease; this had resulted in quarantine of the church and of the homes of nine of the flock, by the local authorities. The sick families were then compelled to submit to medical treatment. One Mrs. Charles Roth, who had lost her husband and four children during the epidemic, would not give verbal consent to the inoculation, although she submitted peaceably...
...extracts of glands for the treatment of disease caused dissension in the Board of General Appraisers. Most of the members said that dried and powdered ovaries and pituitary glands are subject to 10% duty. Judge Brown said such things should be free of duty because they are natural and uncompounded drugs of animal origin...
...Rosenau: "I believe a distinct advance has been made in the treatment of pneumonia. . . . Before the final word can be said concerning the usefulness and also the limitations of his agent, much scientific work must be done...
...NERVOUS WRECK-Surprisingly amusing application of the homeopathic treatment to strengthen a young man's nerve by smashing the crockery all around...