Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fringe of medical research are a number of doctors who sometimes make strange, wonderful and unexplained cures. One such is Dr. Burr Ferguson of Birmingham. Ala., who claims to cure practically every known disease by injections of diluted hydrochloric acid. In some cases he succeeds. He thinks his treatment works because the hydrochloric acid stimulates the production of white blood cells which destroy germs and help to heal wounds. Medical scholars pay no attention to him or his medication. On the other hand, many country doctors believe in Dr. Ferguson and use diluted hydrochloric acid (now widely sold in sterile...
...exterminate the germs which cause syphilis (Treponema pallidum), gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae), and the third but least harmful of the major venereal diseases, chancroid (Hemophilus ducreyi). The money is to be allotted to State and city health officials to buy medicines, to pay doctors and clinics for treatment of venereal victims...
...Morally Bound." Orator Winston Churchill, an independent Conservative and extremely pro-French, had declared only a few days before that if the Henlein Nazis refuse to be satisfied with the highly conciliatory treatment Sudeten Germans are now being offered by the Czechoslovak Government, then "Britain will feel herself morally bound to stand by Czechoslovakia...
...Better and less harsh treatment is our problem now. The treatment is at times so harsh that it kills 3 1/2% out-right and probably causes the death of as many...
...control it in the community Hinton advised, "Control it by having a sensible altitude towards the disease. Have a just attitude towards those who have it. Use your influence for the establishment of public medical treatment...