Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increasingly important branch of medical training is that given in medical technology courses to prepare laboratory workers to assist medical scientists in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. One of the largest departments of this kind is that at the University of Minnesota, where future technologists must complete a four-year course for a degree. The first three years of this course are spent in the arts college and the medical school, the final year in securing practical experience in hospital laboratories, scencs from which are shown here...
Distinction between the imaginative recreation of history "as it must have happened" and the old romanticized treatment of great men and brave deeds formed the basis of the second in a series of talks on the "American Historical Novel" given in New Lecture Hall last night by Bernard DeVoto...
...conventional pilgrimage to Italy have failed to turn out one or more studies in the grandeur of ancient Rome's denuded masonry and shattered marble. How differently from such artists one contemporary U. S. painter sees, feels and works, could be observed last week in the most interesting treatment of Rome's Ruins yet produced in the 20th Century. It was on view at the Julien Levy Gallery in Manhattan as a one-man, one-painting exhibition, and most critics, whether they liked it or not, agreed that there was enough in the one painting for several ordinary...
Adult women resist infection by gonococci because their sex membranes are relatively impervious. Children have very little such protection. Germs work into their tissues where germicidal douches cannot reach. In spite of treatment the disease may last as long as five years. The cure for vaginitis is only four years old. In January 1934, at Yale. Dr. Robert Lewis took a hint from Dr. Edgar Allen, who found that female sex hormones toughened the vaginal mucosa of monkeys. Dr. Lewis gave eight infected children hypodermic doses of theelin, a sex hormone, and cured them in a few weeks...
...Treatment is now standardized to include theelin hypodermically and amniotin in vaginal suppositories. The most resistant cases clear up in at the most six months. The treatment, said Dr. Snow, "produces a temporary maturity of the vaginal mucosa. and occasionally a trifling enlargement of the breasts. But these phenomena subside immediately after the vaginitis is cured and treatment ended. No child has ever suffered harm...