Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vomiting so severe that artificial feeding was sometimes necessary. About ten patients suffered bladder paralysis, necessitating the constant and painful use of catheters. Two developed arthritis. Many women had sharp abdominal pains, due to attacks by the germ on the ovaries. Such a diseased ovary, when exposed for surgical treatment, looked "like a sac of pale blue cellophane stuffed with tapioca pudding." The ovaries of a few patients were entirely destroyed and typical menopause symptoms followed. Endocrine disturbances snowed themselves in increased obesity and growth of body hair...
...face of this new mystery, doctors tried every kind of treatment that offered faint promise. None was wholly satisfactory. Blood transfusions were the most beneficial, but failed in some cases. Vaccines made from the streptococcus and sera from the blood of recovered victims and inoculated monkeys helped only a few mildly affected patients...
Denied the use of human subjects, researchers make most of their cancer experiments on animals. One vicious type of animal cancer-"mouse sarcoma 180"-is highly resistant to such ordinary methods of treatment as radium and X-ray therapy. In very few cases does it dry up and disappear spontaneously. More important, mouse sarcoma 180 is a reliable subject on which to test the effectiveness of various treatments for human cancer...
...mice, hemorrhage then occurred at the cancer site. This was soon covered by a scab which in time was thrown off and the wound eventually healed. The cancer had disappeared, leaving no trace except a slight sparseness of hair over the region it once occupied. Five months after treatment there were no recurrences. In Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics last week Dr. Lewisohn gave the percentage of cancerous mice thus cured...
...carrots, milk, butter, etc.), the anti-scurvy Vitamin C (orange juice, lettuce, celery, etc.) and the antirachitic Vitamin D (fish oil, egg yolks, irradiated foods, etc.). These are of acknowledged importance to human health. But the fact is that doctors are using "the forgotten vitamin," B 1 , in clinical treatment of sick people more often than any other...