Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being sought for arrest for manslaughter. He had previously confessed his story to Governor Templeton and other Connecticut officials. Sutcliffe bought a practice on installments in Unionville, Conn. He was responsible for the death by etherization of Albert C. Hoody, mechanic, who was brought to him for emergency treatment when his finger was crushed in a stamping machine. Sutcliffe crudely amputated the finger, instructing a friend of Hoody's to anesthetize him by pouring three cans of ether on a gauze mask. Hoody died from the fumes. No autopsies were performed on any of Setcliffe's cases...
French and English finance and medicine, in the persons of Baron Henri de Rothschild, Major General Sir Frederick B. Maurice, Sir Stanley Birkin and other famous doctors and philanthropists, have come to the aid of Henri Spahlinger, Swiss discoverer of the promising Spahlinger tuberculosis treatment ( TIME, April 28, June 25). They will try to raise $500,000 to make the treatment available anywhere in the British Commonwealth. Baron Rothschild, himself a physician, has determined that the serum be saved for mankind. Spahlinger has already spent his entire fortune of $500,000 in the work, and Sir Stanley Birkin gave...
Antimicrobum tomarkin is the rather unoriginal cognomen of a new and powerful bactericide for the treatment of pneumonia, discovered by Dr. Leander Tomarkin, a young Swiss physician of Russian origin, conducting researches in laboratories at Rome...
...treatment was devised, dubbed the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act. Still the geese fail to produce their golden fruit. There is a chorus of new proposals. Senator Cummins of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, and others of his group favor consolidation. They say in effect: " Let us put all the geese into half a dozen large goosepens. Then those less inclined to lay will emulate those more inclined to lay, and we shall have eggs." Radicals, such as Senator La Follette, favor drastic cuts in freight rates, saying: " The geese are suffering from a plethora. A little dieting...
...Berkeley, Calif., Dr. Olga Bridgman announced that she had discovered a means of transforming idiots into high grade morons. No details were given, aside from the fact that the treatment is applied to the thyroid glands and is declared effective only in cases of idiocy resulting from irregular secretions from the ductless glands...