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Word: treatments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevents nerve deterioration. On a hunch, they injected from ten to 100 mgm. of pure, synthetic vitamin B 1 directly into the veins of persons suffering from Tic Douloureux. The injection was repeated every day for six days a week. To the scientists' surprise, after several months of treatment 42 out of 52 patients became practically "symptom free," required no further injections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B1 for Tic | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Failla and his associate, Japanese Chemist Kanematsu Sugiura, told how they confirmed this theory and discovered a powerful new treatment for cancer. If the theory were true, reasoned the scientists, water injected directly into a tumor after treatment with X-rays would increase the swelling of cancer cells, kill them more quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Water for Cancer | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...practical application of these findings," concluded the scientists, "nothing can be said at this time. If human tumors react in the same way to the combined X-ray and distilled water treatment . . . the range of successful application of X-rays in the treatment of cancer will be materially increased. For, at present, good results cannot be obtained in many cases because the tumor is so insensitive to X-rays that the large dose required to kill it will cause too much damage in adjoining normal tissue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Water for Cancer | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...grand scale of its theme and the fragmentary method of presentation. The cast of thousands, the romanticized history, the premeditated lavishness and panoramic effect--these are all present. But the story, which concerns the building of America's first transcontinental railroad, is amenable to this sort of treatment; and the screen version has been made with unusually great attention to detail. As a result, the atmosphere of frontier times--composed of the amusing savagery of the Indians, their reaction to "civilization," the lives of the railroad workers, and the machinations of big financiers behind the scenes in Washington--is vividly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

...have a brain specialist, child specialist, orthopedic specialist. . . . Two thousand of you can pay $25 a year for your families, and with the $50,000 you will have collectively, you can hire eight or more good doctors and specialists who will provide you with free examinations, free treatments, and free surgical operations. . . . You can have expensive equipment, preventive medical treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooperative Doctor | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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