Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abrams has invented numerous other machines. After the diagnosis is made, treatment is applied by the " oscilloclast." This is based on the principle that specific drugs possess the same vibratory rate as the diseases for which they are effective. By turning on the proper rate for a few treatments the "oscilloclast " clears " the disease. The machine is not for sale, but is leased for $200 down and $5 a month to Abrams graduates who will sign a contract not to open the apparatus. Other Abrams devices are the " electro-concussor;" the " biodynamometer," for determining "the potentiality of human energy...
...Starr, Toronto, described the possibilities of thyroid therapy. Cretins (goiterous dwarf defectives) can be increased in stature six inches in a year by treatment with goat thyroid extract. A race of tall men may be bred. 2) Ethylene, the new anaesthetic (TIME, March 17) has been used in 907 cases in Chicago clinics, only one resulting fatally. 3) Sir William I. de Courcy Wheeler, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, was a special guest. 4) Dr. "Will" Mayo (TIME, May 19) was a prominent figure, as usual. He made an address summarizing surgical progress. 5) Dr. Albert...
...White House spirit" that a man fails to regret and remember the class that he has left, when he rises to a higher one. In Britian, on the other hand, laboring men have the feeling that they represent a class which is desirable and necessary, and which merits good treatment at the hands of the other classes...
Henry T. Finck (Post) : " The audience, I regret to say, encouraged the Odessan pianist in his disrespectful treatment of the great masters' music. . . . After a while his mumbled speeches, which could be heard only in the front rows, got on the nerves of some of the listeners, and they resorted to continuous applause to make him shut...
...Forbes Godfrey, Ontario Minister of Health, revealed at a dinner of medical men that Dr. F. G. Banting, discoverer of insulin (TiME, Aug. 27), would shortly announce a new discovery " of even greater importance than the world-famed diabetes treatment." Dr. V. E. Henderson, of the pharmacological department of the University of Toronto Medical School, confirmed this with the words " Dr. Banting had something so good we couldn't believe it." Dr. Banting himself refused to talk. Until the new experiments have been repeated several times and the results thoroughly verified, the public will probably have to remain...