Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation would remember 1946 as its worst polio year in three decades. The year's toll so far: 22,371 cases (approaching 1916's record 27,000). Cost of treatment, $4,000,000, had almost wiped out the emergency aid fund of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Polio news was mostly bad: 1946 is the fourth consecutive epidemic year. The four-year total: 65,000 cases, more than twice as many as in the preceding quadrennium...
...many a parent who had lived through the nightmare fear of polio, there was some statistical encouragement: in 1916, 25% of polio's victims died. This year, thanks to early recognition of the disease and improved treatment (iron lungs, physical therapy, etc.) the death rate is down...
...Drennan are still battling for the starting role at right guard, with Rodis contributing a good performance in yesterday's session. At left end, George Hauptfuhrer seems to have the inside track at the moment, although Walter Coulson, who suffered a leg injury last Saturday, has responded rapidly to treatment, and might conceivably see action against the Indians in Hanover this Saturday...
...People will only stand for controls when things aren't going well," Professor Harris said. "In addition, this election reflects a general dissatisfaction with the treatment of post-war economic problems by the Administration. The American public, however, is certainly not fed up with planning for good. If the Republicans win in 1948, and if we have another serious depression in the early 1950's we'll have another period of planning--in fact the largest ever on a peace-time scale...
About one surgery patient in a thousand dies under anesthetic. The usual emergency treatment, when a patient's heart stops, is artificial respiration and an adrenalin injection into the heart. Mr. Bailey said he had abandoned this uncertain, time-consuming method for more direct action. He cuts open the abdomen below the ribs with a sweep of the knife, grasps the exposed heart with his right hand and squeezes it like a bulb. After a few minutes' massage, Mr. Bailey triumphantly reported, some of his patients' hearts began to beat of their own accord, and the patients...