Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farming, and started a "grow more food'' campaign. After a while the Japanese discovered what else the Kathigasus were doing: a radio in Sybil's bedroom picked up information which was relayed to the guerrillas; wounded resistance fighters and British stragglers were sheltered and given medical treatment in their house...
Rice diet? Dr. Goldring believes that experiments with this diet have proved nothing at all. Low salt diet? "A treatment of doubtful value." Sympathectomy (cutting nerves leading to the body's small blood vessels)? It has not yet been shown to have much effect, but is "a highly desirable clinical experiment." Removal of one kidney? Only for conditions that would make surgeons take it out anyway...
...only treatment Dr. Goldring really believes in is psychotherapy: "Simple, sympathetic reassurance is often sufficient to relieve disturbing symptoms...
Ravel: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Leonard Bernstein, pianist-conductor, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of London; Victor, 5 sides). Ravel was feeling the hot breath of Gershwin on his neck when he wrote this one in 1932; Bernstein gives it dewy-eyed, loving treatment. Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
...scored her first success in 1902 with The Conqueror, a novelized biography of Alexander Hamilton, later established her name with her historical novels and social histories of California. In 1923 she hit the jackpot with her top bestseller, Black Oxen, which described her own sexual rejuvenation by X-ray treatment...