Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alvan Leroy Barach of Manhattan.* The excess oxygen increases the amount of blood the heart pumps each beat and thus aids the flow of blood through hardened arteries, or it helps maintain circulation when the heart is jolted by a blood clot plugging a blood vessel. The oxygen treatment relieves shortness of breath, lowers pulse rate, improves appetite, aids elimination of body poisons. It does not help tuberculosis of the lungs...
Resolutions. Members of the College resolved to argue with Congressmen and State legislators for the repeal of every law which restricts medical treatment of disease by licensed physicians...
...Helen Roome, the doctor's one-time wife, a large-boned trained nurse who objected to the proposed treatment...
...rooms are answered. Immediate investigation of an appeal for medical assistance is an essential of protection. If pressure of other duties prevents prompt personal attention from the Medical Adviser, it is an admission that the staff is insufficient that no assistant can be assigned a case. Neglect or improper treatment of disease in its early stages often results in needless hardship to the individual and danger to many when a case of contagion occurs...
...handled their work." The New York men are certain that their San Francisco colleagues have had no training to qualify for research in "the most complex field that exists" in medicine. They do not believe that adrenal cortex extract will cure cancer or that it has value in cancer treatment, yet are willing to experiment with it on animals. They fear that the Californians will experiment on New York humans, hence want them (or at least their methods; excluded, to remain in California where patients are ''abundantly available...