Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal Cold Treatment No. 1: a) one fever-chasing tablet (aspirin, phenacetin, or the like) dissolved in a small quantity of warm water; b) swab throat with a mixture of one part iodine and five parts glycerine; c) spray nostrils.with 1% solution of ephedrin sulphate, or with a diluted solution of atropine sulphate if cold is very severe; d) castor oil or citrate of magnesia purge; e) saturated solution of baking powder...
Federal Cold Treatment No. 2: two aspirin tablets, a teaspoon of baking soda, a dash of aromatic spirits of ammonia and a few drops of spirits of camphor shaken with two ounces of hot water. Swallow the mixture...
...department of surgery of Louisiana State University Medical Center, to search for explanations. His conclusions he last week presented in the American Journal of Sur gery*: "Categorically speaking, the mortality in appendicitis is not usually the mortality of appendicitis itself; it is usually the mortality of unwise treatment, the mortality of delay, and the mortality of the complications that follow upon and are induced by these two things." But for childhood and old age this generality does not hold. Appendicitis is then dangerous per se. Thus although only one-third of the cases of appendicitis occur at the extremes...
...Manhattan hospital where for three weeks he has been under treatment for shingles, Pennsylvania's long lean Governor Gifford Pinchot signed four State bills authorizing payment of $50,000,000 in bonuses to Pennsylvania's War veterans. "There are only two things I want to talk about," said he. "Roosevelt and my shingles. . . . Now about this shingles business. . . . You know the Administration's critics are something like my shingles. Shingles are microscopic little things-as a matter of fact you can't even see them under a microscope. You can't imagine how frustrated...
...well brother, who leaves home, takes to dubious ways. Though she has wanted her sons to marry, she objects to the efficient daughter-in-law who takes her place as mistress of the house. When she too hastily marries off her blind daughter among strangers whose ill-treatment kills her, when her beloved younger son is beheaded as a Communist, the mother thinks that her life is over. But when her first grandchild is born, she knows better...