Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Habit. In Doncaster, England, nine-year-old George Cole, discharged from a hospital after treatment for a broken arm, plunged happily into a cricket match, landed back in the hospital a few hours later with a fractured skull...
...Senators Ferguson and Brewster both said the hearings would be resumed. Then Senator Ferguson went off to Bethesda hospital, for treatment of a bad case of poison...
Meanwhile, dentists have discovered a new fluorine treatment for children which also looks promising: a solution of sodium fluoride applied directly to the teeth. Already widely tested, the treatment has been found to reduce caries (tooth decay) up to 40%. PHS officers issued a warning, however, against some other fluorine fads. Not recommended: fluorinated dentifrices (they do no good) and fluorine tablets (unwisely used, they may mottle teeth and bones, cause kidney trouble...
Vienna-born Dentist Bernhard Gottlieb and three colleagues at Baylor University reported a treatment which they claimed was even better than sodium fluoride: a solution of zinc chloride and potassium ferrocyanide, which plugs microscopic cracks in the teeth against bacterial invasion...
...bald pate shining under the committee's klieglights, rubber-faced Johnny Meyer said that he had indeed known Elliott Roosevelt more than somewhat. All the time Roosevelt had been out looking at planes, Hughes's Meyer had been at Elliott's elbow, pouring on the treatment. The night that the final Roosevelt recommendation went to Washington, Johnny had treated Elliott to the tune of $106.50 at Manhattan's swank night clubs...