Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barley, from sawdust, which is mostly a waste product or burned as an inferior fuel in lumber mills. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which again can be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar can be converted into protein by treatment with yeast; into fat by feeding it to pigs. Dr. Bergius said last week that, "for the present," food-from-wood is being fed to animals; he avoided saying that if Germany gets into a tough war it will be fed to humans...
...several years the annual sessions of the American Chemical Society have been accompanied by extraordinary publicity in the lay press concerning new chemical discoveries applicable in the field of medicine and particularly for the treatment of disease. Each year has seen several disappointments associated with the subsequent fate of the widely heralded remedies. Occasionally, of course, some of the preparations thus announced have found a certain field of usefulness. The medical profession has thus far refrained from criticizing this interference in its field. This year, however . . . the American Chemical Society cannot dodge its responsibility in this case. It is neither...
...Treatment of cancer is positive and often curative in cases of cancers which can be reached without cutting the patient open. Thus the rate of cure is comparatively high for cancers of the skin, breast, uterus. From those sites the surgeon usually can excise the offensive tumor or the radiologist can shrivel it with x-ray or radium. The great difficulty with cancers of internal organs is that they seldom warn the victim of their presence until it is too late to get rid of them. Nonetheless, surgeons can save the lives of an appreciable number of victims. Radiologists, guided...
After Roosevelt II organized Warm Springs Foundation for the treatment of infantile paralytics, Orthopedist Hoke was called in to be one of 15 consultants. Five years ago Dr. Hoke was asked to become Surgeon-in-Chief. He took up residence in Warm Springs' Little White House, which he regularly vacated each Thanksgiving to make room for the President. White House correspondents quickly made Dr. '"Mike" Hoke's name familiar throughout the land...
Cinchophen is a bitter white powder discovered in 1887 and used since 1908 as a treatment for gout, arthritis, rheumatic fever, neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica. By 1932 U. S. invalids were annually using 90,000 Ib. of cinchophen and its derivatives...