Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be conducted on the Philippines pest island of Culion, where Dr. H. Windsor Wade has charge of 5,200 lepers. At one time Culion was called the Island of Despair. Now it is the Island of Hope, for Dr. Wood has been able, by a rigid regime of treatment, to discharge approximately 1,000 onetime lepers as cured or at least noninfectious...
...this Leonard Wood said in Manhattan last week: "It has been proved that cures are possible at nearly any stage of the disease, and more likely if treatment is started quickly. I do not think $2,000,000 is too large an amount to be raised by this drive when you consider that lepers are the most wretched of human beings." Advocating this was one of his main reasons for his present visit to the U. S. He plans to resume his duties as Governor General of the Philippines in September...
...subversive doctrine. For, attending a farmers' meeting at Ardmore, S. Dak., the President listened while Democratic Governor Bulow of South Dakota assailed the Republican tariff. The Governor, tall, lean, ruddy complexioned, with a long, thin face and rather a dominating nose, maintained that farmers must be given fair treatment if "this country is to long survive." Governor Bulow felt that if the "discriminatory" tariff were not remedied, the farmer would have to be given assistance in the form of "artificial price-fixing." Even this bow to the McNary-Haugen bill prompted no reply from the President who came with...
...experiments there with chaulmoogra oil, leprosy specific-occupies only a small triangle of land around the isolated village of Kalaupapa, inaccessible save by an arduous path which is easily guarded. Only about 40 lepers now remain at the colony, many having been discharged in recent years after chaulmoogra oil treatment. Molokai itself is fifth in size of the Hawaiian group, having an area about one-fifth the size of Rhode Island. Flyers Smith and Bronte were in no danger of contracting leprosy...
...biography at his face value. Writing in the manner of fiction, she draws bold conclusions from his actions, makes no attempt to soften his cruelties on the excuses of religious mania. Yet human beings are more important than idols and the First Methodist is not diminished by stringent treatment. He emerges, a conceivable person, lecherous as well as righteous, prurient as well as pure, jealous of a girl as well as zealous for his God. Author Oemler treats him curtly but with even justice. The serious nature of the book may surprise that portion of the public who associates...