Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he had produced artificially a successful pneumonia antigen. (An antigen is a substance which stimulates the organism to produce antibodies ; a serum is a blood constituent in which antibodies have already been produced.) The Goebel antigen is a combination of egg white and an acid obtained by complicated treatment of cellulose products (such as sawdust, straw or wood fibres) with water...
...later, painful red swellings appear on the shins, thighs, arms, scalp. Known to valley workers as "the bumps," this erythemanodosum lasts anywhere from a few days to several weeks. When it finally fades, leaving only brown spots, the first stage of the disease is complete. There is no specific treatment for the erythema, but even without a physician's care practically all the victims recover...
...loves trees, eagerly showed reporters four luxuriant chestnut trees on the New Jersey estate of Success Coach Walter Boughton Pitkin. Then he displayed two more in his own backyard. They had been struck with the blight, he said, but he had saved them with his new tannic acid treatment. Method of treatment is simple: on the theories currently held by tree experts, that: 1) the tannic acid of tree-sap is as actively disease-resistant as human blood; and 2) the circulatory system of a tree will by suction pressure carry medicine to diseased organs just as effectively as does...
...political commentators covered by the survey, he said, 13% were found prejudiced. Boston stations were rated as the most biased. Specific examples of biased broadcasting, supposed to be quoted from the N. A. B. survey: 1) Commentator Boake Carter: anti-Russian treatment of the recent Russo-Japanese border battle. 2) Station KGB (San Diego): deleting anti-New Deal news. 3) Station WGAR (Cleveland): anti-New Dealism. 4) Station WGN (Chicago): distorting the facts of FORTUNE'S survey of Presidential popularity when the station's newscaster said the survey indicated waning popularity for President Roosevelt...
Latest and most unusual treatment for the bleeding is the application of fresh human milk to stubborn wounds. Two young Ohio physicians, Dr. Lester Stepner of Cincinnati and Dr. Sol Taplits of New Richmond, applied the milk to two hemophiliacs, stopped severe cases of bleeding in a short time with only a few ounces of milk. "More research work is needed to isolate and identify the [bloodclotting] principle in human milk," said plump Dr. Stepner last week. "I think it is an autacoid [hormone]. . . . Dr. Taplits thinks it is an enzyme...