Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saul Hertz, instructor in Medicine in the Medical School, has announced that he has founded an institution, The Radioactive Isotope Research Institute, whose purpose is to apply radioactive fission products to the treatment of the thyroid cancer, goiter, and other malignant growths...
...Measures. Treatment No. 1 is antagonistic bacilli, taken by mouth in ginger ale or some other carbonated beverage. Once in the patient's system, the bacilli produce an "antibiotic" which kills off the typhoid germs in two weeks to a month. Treatment No. 2, a combination of penicillin, three sulfa drugs (thiazole, diazine and merazine) plus alcohol and a dye called iodophthalein, injected in the patients' muscles or veins, works faster but it made 50% of Manteno's patients violently...
...University of California School of Jurisprudence, Professor Alexander Marsden Kidd has had no trouble living up to his obvious nickname. In all the university's vast (3,250 members) faculty, no teacher is so fierce in pursuit of his prize (knowledge) or so furious in the treatment of his enemy (the lazy student) as the law school's "Captain Kidd...
...optimistic report on their work. They had given injections of histamine to 38 disturbed patients. Ten (about 26%) improved; five of the ten improved enough to leave the hospital. The results were about the same as with a control group who had been given the more dangerous electric shock treatment. The doctors also found that patients who were first given histamine reacted better when given electric shock. In another series of treatments on 48 office patients with histamine alone, eleven showed slight improvement and 17 "moderate to marked" improvement...
...theory behind the treatment, say the Drs. Sackler, is that histamine may give the brain a better blood supply by dilating the blood vessels. Electric shock, they think, works by increasing the amount of histamine. One advantage of the new treatment: the patient need not go to a hospital. The novel histamine report, Dr. van Ophuijsen suspected, would raise a "healthy storm...