Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painful virus disease which furrows the eyelids, burns out the vision of thousands of peasants in Asia, Southeastern Europe, South America. At the Berkeley, Calif, meeting of the Sixth Pacific Science Congress, Dr. Phillips Thygeson, of Manhattan's famed Presbyterian Hospital, announced that sulfanilamide was an effective treatment for trachoma. When Dr. Thygeson fed Sulfanilamide tablets to two large groups of patients, he "obtained healing or striking improvement in a high proportion of cases." In those cases which were far advanced, however, Sulfanilamide did not restore vision...
...years ago, Frigyes (Frederic) Karinthy, popular Hungarian poet, sat sipping tea in his favorite Budapest café. Suddenly he heard locomotives rumbling, reverberating, dying away. Startled, he raised his head. He knew there had been no trains on the streets of Budapest for 40 years. But he took no treatment for his head-splitting hallucinations until his eyesight grew dim, his legs shaky, his stomach rebellious...
Various medications have been used for relief of tic, such as alcohol injections, salicylates, trichlorethylene. Latest proposed treatment is Vitamin B 1 (TIME, May 8). But all these treatments are palliative, none gives permanent relief. Surgical cutting of nerves in the face was tried as early as 1748. Since then the surgical technique has been refined to include cutting of nerve roots and ganglions in the brain...
...news of the Transcript's "Newscope Edition." Two days later, when the Newscope Edition appeared, Beacon Street saw, instead of the Transcript's dowdy old front page, a bold, five-column layout, of which nearly two columns were pictures. The text frankly aped TIME'S news treatment...
Prince Paul only a few weeks previously had undergone even more lavish Berlin treatment and had acted somewhat pained by it. Although known personally to prefer London's and Paris' ways to Berlin's, the Regent has nevertheless recognized that Yugoslavia is now soundly squeezed between Germany and Italy (in Albania) and that when Führer Hitler wants to entertain him he has to take...