Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those of you who read Correspondent Robert Benjamin's account of the treatment of political prisoners and the low state of democracy in totalitarian Paraguay in TIME'S Aug. 30 issue may have wondered how he happened to get the story. Here is his version...
...Protest. Opportunist Houde pulled out all the stops. He barged into the Montreal offices of the British United Press, dictated a blast against Ottawa's treatment of De Bernonville. "A crying injustice," charged Houde. Gustave Jobi-don, a Quebec City notary, cabled to ex-French Premier Robert Schuman: "French Canada is scandalized . . . Vive Pétain. Vive De Bernonville." Other Parti Canadien backers called De Bernonville "a hero of epic and legendary stature...
...season opened on Broadway last week-with a play that closed after seven performances. Called Sundown Beach, it was a sad little thing in both subject matter and treatment-a bungled tale of flyers who had cracked up mentally in the war and were trying to get out of a convalescent hospital back into life. The new season's second offering, Morey Amsterdam's Hilarities, was far more gaily conceived but not much more happily executed. It proved to be a generally cheesy vaudeville show redeemed here & there by a sort of primitive showmanship...
...ancient Romans had an imaginative treatment for alcoholics: a live eel in a cup of wine. Forced to drink this lively cocktail, the tippler would presumably be disgusted by all future potations. Modern doctors are still using a variation of this old cure. Latest results on a remarkably large number of patients were reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. An alcoholic is given an injection of emetine* (a nauseating drug derived from ipecac). Just before he vomits, he downs a glass of his favorite drink. After several such experiences, the patient begins to detest the taste...
During a 10½-year period the sanitarium treated 2,323 patients (93% were men) by the emetine method. They were of every type: business and professional men, neurotics, former inmates of state institutions. They received no other treatment, but were encouraged to stay sober by social workers. The results: 85% stayed sober for six months, 70% for a year, 60% for two years, 55% for three years, 40% for four years, more than 30% up to seven years, 25% up to 10½ years or longer...