Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past, iron-clad, watertight preventive measures are not desirable, as they would handicap all the honest students and immensely increase the tasks of the Library attendants, who have their hands full as it is. But some reasonably severe treatment ought to be accorded the offenders, who in spite of their scarcity still manage to cause confusion and inconvenience. Mr. Lane, the librarian, in barring such men from the Library until after the Midyear period has chosen the punishment with justice. Those who fail to regard the privileges of others deserve to lose their...
There exists a "lime starvation" treatment, which consists of getting organic lime into the blood. Mr. McCann asserts that the customary sanatorium treatment arrests only 22% of tuberculosis cases, taken at early stages, and treated under ideal conditions, whereas, for 12 years, the "lime starvation" cure has arrested an average of 68%, taken at serious stages, and treated while patients continued to do their regular work. Mr. McCann asserts that the suppression of this cure reveals "the abysmal inertia of the medical profession with respect to a disease so clumsily and inefficiently attacked...
...supports his charges by two quotations-one from Dr. John F. Murphy, in whose memory a hospital is being built in Chicago: "In fact it [outrageously neglected treatment of tuberculosis] borders on a crime." The other quotation is from Dr. Richard C. Cabot, Harvard: "I know from my own certain knowledge that the vast majority of physicians in Massachusetts cannot make a diagnosis of early tuberculosis. I do not believe that one-tenth of the physicians in any State can tell incipient tuberculosis when they see it from physicial signs...
...other side of the picture is the fact that the British Government in London, bad as its past treatment of India has been, has announced that its policy is to provide for "the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government in India as a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations." There is evidence that a majority of the peoples of India would prefer to remain within the Commonwealth; but this is a question which will have...
...Edsall says: "When reason is applied to Religion, there is naturally discord. It is as if one tried to play a violin with a saw." Now there is considerably more than discord. Such treatment inevitably results in the ruin of the violin: Whereas the saw is quite unharmed...