Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treatment: the treatment described in TIME has the approval, evidently, of the local doctors for treatment of this case...
...radiotherm attracted the attention of General Motors' Mr. Kettering. Mr. Kettering, an inveterate tinker, took that first radiotherm to the Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, where Dr. Simpson could experiment with it. It cured cases of syphilis (thus making Professor von Jauregg's troublesome malaria treatment obsolete), gonorrhea, rheumatism, colds and other ailments. But when the feverish patient broke into a sweat, the high frequency current tended to arc, thus burning his wet flesh. Mr. Kettering overcame that difficulty by fanning the patient dry with a blast of hot air from a new air conditioner which...
...frequently infect Fallopian tubes and ovaries; streptococci and staphylococci, the uterus. To cure such infections in women, doctors used to be obliged to resort to surgery. Dr. Virgil Sheetz Counsellor of the Mayo Clinic, recently told his colleagues that he cured 73% of such inflammatory cases with the Elliott treatment applied an hour a day for two to three weeks. Dr. Simpson in his last week's account reported 90% cures without surgery...
...known about epilepsy from the time of the Babylonians. Julius Caesar suffered from it, as did Napoleon. Dostoevski, an epileptic, unraveled the epileptic's mind and life for literature. But, despite ancient recognition and voluminous analyses of symptoms. Medicine even today knows very little about the causes and treatment of epilepsy...
What happens when the physician does arrive and there have been a large number of sprained ankles and pulled tendons? Since he must examine every case, he is rushed and is forced to give men summary and unsatisfactory treatment. If a serious condition develops the man may be kept out of his sport for several weeks and may diminish gate receipts. Two more important considerations are the unfairness to the men themselves and to the coaches and teams who suffer from the loss of players...