Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recent American experiments have approached the tuberculosis problem from the chemical rather than the bacteriological side. The calcium-carbon inhalation treatment advanced by Dr. P. Nolan, of Jeannette, Pa. (TIME, May 12), has been criticized...
Propaganda Department of the American Medical Association, which has done valuable work in exposing quackery. While not definitely condemning, it finds that Nolan's " fibriform" treatment is essentially secret in composition, is put forward on a basis of inadequate tests, and is being commercially exploited in connection with an instrument sold only by the promoter...
...tissue acted exactly like the positive pole, and the normal rat, the negative, in an ordinary dry-cell circuit He proved that cancerous tissue has an excess of positive charge which may be neutralized by the application of an equal negative charge. This explains why X-ray and radium treatment, in which the alpha or positive rays are screened off by a lead shield, while the beta and gamma rays (negative) are allowed to reach the diseased tissue, have had good results. Colloids of certain elements, such as iodine, sulphur, lead, mercury, have strongly negative charges, and several American physicians...
...longest X-ray treatment for cancer on record was given last week in Bellevue Hospital, New York, b> Dr. I. Seth Hirsch. The patient was exposed for 56 hours to the maximum voltage (250,000) of a high-power X-ray machine, concentrated on an abdominal cancer in a position where surgical treatment was impossible, Several weeks will be required to determine the success of the treatment, but the patient's condition is favorable...
...three-days-old baby, unable to breathe, and kept alive by artificial respiration of oxygen, was saved at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children when X-ray treatment to reduce an abnormal thymus gland was applied under the direction of Dr. Mary Halton. The thymus is a small ductless gland situated at the base of the neck, whose functions are imperfectly understood, though its secretion or " hormone " is believed to influence children's growth and bone formation. It is present in children from before birth until puberty...