Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drugs taken by mouth for arthritis are somewhat more efficacious because some of them allay pain, but none "is a cure for arthritis because there are a thousand causes of the disease and each cause requires separate treatment." Continuing his efforts to make vice look ridiculous, Dr. Mayers declared that "of 100 cases of sickness 80 will recover naturally; eight will die in any event, and only in twelve cases can the doctor be of any assistance." He made not a few practitioners in the audience look ridiculous when he concluded: "There is plenty of arthritis that is cured...
...Manhattan he deposited a draft of information about leprosy which his U. S. sponsors may cash at the bank of U. S. chanty to get funds for an increased attack on this ancient disease. "Tuberculosis is more infectious than leprosy," declared Dr. Muir. But leprosy is more amenable to treatment. Drugs arrest the progress of leprosy, but they do not cure. They are simply "useful adjuncts" to good food and plenty of vitamins. Just as useful as chaulmoogra oil, upon which hopes have risen high, is "any kind of counterirritant. Acids painted on the leper's body sometimes cause...
...improvement in the care of students more than amply justifies jacking up the Infirmary fee. It is satisfying to see that the University which stands for supremacy in medicine throughout the country has fumigated its own College house and is now giving its undergraduates the kind of treatment to which they are entitled...
...third of a series of lectures on Prevention and Treatment of Skiing Injuries was given Monday night at the Junior League. Charles N. Proctor, noted designer of trails, Doctor Charles C. Lund '20, authority on treatment of skiing injuries, and Maurice M. Osborne '08 spoke on the transportation and first aid of the injured...
Last week it was belatedly discovered that Mr. Meehan, far from recovering after his preliminary bout with SEC, had been confined since last August to Bloomingdale Hospital, a sanatorium near Manhattan for the treatment of nervous and mental disorders. On the application of his wife and the advice of two alienists, the 42-year-old broker had been committed by New York Supreme Court Justice William F. Bleakley just before that jurist accepted the Republican nomination for Governor of New York...