Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present we do know how to prevent these diseases in the true sense of protection. Early detection and treatment are the only available methods to prevent serious consequences or untimely death. Public health programs," he continued, "can therefore help states in expanding their treatment facilities...
...treatment of cerebral palsy is a long, expensive process, calling for a whole battery of specialists. Great progress has been made recently by private clinics and such researchers as Dr. Winthrop M. Phelps, director of the famed Children's Rehabilitation Institute in Cockeysville, Md. Various state legislatures have also appropriated funds. But facilities and trained personnel are so short that only about 10% of the cerebral palsied get the necessary kind of training and care...
Back to Turner went Rupert in disgrace; and back to Glad Acres went $38,000 plus $3,000 for transportation and other costs. Saddened but not discouraged, Turner sent Rupert to Kansas State College, where he got the full treatment of modern veterinarian vitalizing. After seven months, Rupert returned to his home ranch, full of penicillin, assorted hormones and vitamin C. But he was still sterile...
...Quirks. From childhood, when he discovered that by feigning illness he could avoid parental discipline, Proust had suffered from asthma. The illness was, he knew, at least partly "a nervous habit," and though it struck him severely through most of his adult life, he refused to submit to thoroughgoing treatment. Instead, he isolated himself in his cork-lined room. Stung by the Dreyfus affair and aroused to literary ambitions, he found himself "weary of insincerity and friendship, which are almost the same thing." After his mother's death in 1905, the shaken, 34-year-old Proust withdrew from society...