Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This devotion to accuracy, however laudable, tends to produce a play which allows its narrative overmuch attention with a consequent vitiation of dramatic vitality. The core of the drama is inevitably the love story of Parnell and Kate O'Shea and this central theme might bear a more profound treatment than Mrs. Shauffier has accorded it. Nonetheless, the story has such merits of its own that mere dramatization suffices to make it an absorbing theatrical experience if not a play of permanent importance...
...first direct step is to compress a small-sized rubber form and insert it into the puckered throat. The rubber upon expanding stretches the throat slightly. Soon as the throat accommodates itself to the stretch. Dr. Jackson repeats the process by inserting a core of larger diameter. "The treatment," said he last week, "is highly successful with children. But it should never be undertaken unless the physician has the patience...
Concluded Johns Hopkins' Dr. Affleck: "An important fact to note is that once a mole shows sufficient symptoms to cause a patient to consult a physician, it is already in an advanced stage and treatment, regardless of the type, rarely results in cure. The only hope for the present seems to lie in the removal of pigmented [moles] in their quiescent stage...
...brain, in the adrenal glands. Disease renders capillary walls abnormally permeable to blood by simultaneously thinning the blood and capillary walls. Hemorrhage is due to wholesale escape of blood through the walls of those capillaries. According to one of the articles which Dr. Fishbein published last week, one treatment for thrombocytopenic purpura is the injection of water moccasin venom. The developers of this remedy, Manhattan's Drs. Samuel M. Peck, Nathan Rosenthal and Lowell A. Erf, advise a long series of hypodermic injections of dilute venom into the loose space between the skin and muscles. They admittedly...
...called upon patients, his footman would accompany him to the bedside, hold his high hat during examination of the patient. At last week's meeting Neurologist Sachs rose to charge: "Psychoanalysis more often prolongs and engenders mental disorder than it cures it. No person who has undergone the treatment can ever be entirely normal mentally again. It is a disruptive and not a constructive mechanism. Dr. Brill, I want you to keep your hands off the children. Your doctrines already have done outrageous damage...