Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less hurried reading of this volume should have led to emphasis of the fact that it deals primarily with a study of the cause and prevention of abortion, the treatment of its serious complications, and the control of criminal abortion by correcting the underlying social economic factors and the hopelessly confused and unjust laws now on our statute books...
Bismuth and mercury, both heavy metals, and arsenic, a light metallike element, have destructive effects upon the twirling spirochete which causes syphilis. In the usual modern treatment some compound of arsenic, such as Neosalvarsan, is used as the main weapon, some form of mercury or bismuth as supplement. The arsenic compound is usually injected into a vein in the arm. Mercury or bismuth compounds are injected into the rump...
...copies. The St. John the Baptist of the Legion of Decency movement, Father Lord drew up the morality code which Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays's office adopted in 1930 and which is supposed to ban from Hollywood films such subjects as sexual perversion, nudity, irreverent treatment of the clergy, miscegenation...
...Manhattan last January the American Social Hygiene Association heard New York City's Health Commissioner Dr. John Levi Rice earnestly single out the prevention and treatment of syphilis as the gravest single problem facing his department (TIME...
...point to beleaguer venereal quacks. The News decided to try to make it as easy for the masses to get correct information about venereal diseases as about tuberculosis. Newsman Carl Warren was told to turn out a series of articles on social diseases, how to cure them, where free treatment might be obtained. Last week the Warren articles were bound in a pamphlet, titled Venereal Diseases & Prophylaxis, priced at 5?, put on sale in the News Information Bureau, where the helpful journal also peddles at nominal rates sound advice on cookery, fashions, reducing exercises. To top it all, the News...