Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME Inc.'s Copenhagen stringman, Kai Schou, first heard of antabus at a lecture at Copenhagen's medical association. There Dr. Oluf Martensen-Larsen, a specialist in the treatment of alcoholism, told publicly for the first time about the results his clinic had been getting from the drug. He had volunteered to try it on his patients after Dr. Jacobsen had finished experimenting with it in his laboratory...
...Yale University School of Medicine. Adopting the Read idea, they made improvements as they went along. Last week Dr. Goodrich reported to Manhattan's Maternity Center Association the favorable results in 400 cases, the first wholesale trial of the Read treatment...
Five-Star Treatment. Whatever Hubert Humphrey still had to learn about becoming a Senator, there was not much for him still to learn about politicking. He briefed his new eight-man staff: every letter was to be answered, every request followed up, a card-index system established to show what action was taken. Minnesota correspondence was to get priority (in one week he got 2,000 letters, tops for any freshman). He had a list prepared of big Minnesota names, who were to get the five-star treatment...
While the producers of Whiplash seem chiefly interested in illustrating the varied arts of mayhem, they were not able to resist dragging in a little Moral Problem. Clark, the human punching bag, is getting the treatment because he wants to rescue Alexis from her sinister mate (Zachary Scott) and retire from bad fights to paint bad pictures. The catch is that the wicked husband is paralyzed from the waist down, and thinks up his villainies in a wheelchair. No hero can sock a man in a wheelchair; no heroine can divorce him. How to get rid of him? Whiplash solves...
...system looks so promising that the hospital is now giving the special treatment to 200 patients, and other VA hospitals have adopted the treatment. One of the wrinkles added by the Bedford (Mass.) Hospital: a three-paneled mirror. It helps patients who slump along with bent head and shoulders to straighten up, look the world in the face...