Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Utterly banal in theme and rather juvenile in treatment, the play succeeds moderately as amusement, largely due to the persuasive personality of the star...
...Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, under the leadership of Dr. Hugh H. Young, investigations are being made as to the effects of newly discovered chemicals in the treatment of infections. Recently Dr. Young announced the treatment of generalized infections by the injection into the blood of mercurochrome-220 soluble and of gentian violet. The results were considered extraordinary since the treatments were used only in severe cases. It was the belief of the observers that the gentian violet had a selective action against infections with staphylococci. The gentian violet is a dye substance and, when injected into the blood, causes...
...indication that the serum of patients recovering from scarlet fever contains antisubstances against the disease, and these act against the toxins causing the eruption and bring about the local blanching of the skin. In 1897, Weisbecker in Germany began the use of serum from convalescing patients in the treatment of scarlet fever. Its use in several thousands of cases has now established it as a standard form of treatment...
Sued for Divorce. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., 68, ex-U. S. Senator from Oregon (1907-1913), by Mrs. Carol B. Sperry Bourne, 43, at Mobile, Ala., where he now lives. She charged desertion. His first wife divorced him in 1913 on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment...
...whole truth in the matter would be welcome, although if William Sidis prefers that nothing more be said about him, nothing more should be said. American newspapers generally have been unsympathetic in their treatment of prodigies. It is possible that the notoriety of the present case several years ago was too much for its subject, and he gave up in disgust. Or it may be that Mr. Sidis had not the capacity of Professor Gildersleeve and John Stuart Mill to carry on with his work. Whatever the facts, the Tribune has succumbed to the democratic temptation to crow over...