Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past eleven years, the G.I. has been remarkably popular in West Germany, and the German press, on the whole, restrained in its treatment of G.I. lapses. This era of good feeling was now in jeopardy. "Gangsters and sex maniacs who still today believe they can treat our wives and daughters as game are undesired here," editorialized the sober official gazette of Rhineland-Palatinate...
...Fool? At first the treatment left Pyrame too weak even to work up a thirst. But having led their horse to their esteemed water, the Bourbouliens made him drink. By last week he was taking his medicine like a man, frisking around almost like a race horse. Just about everybody was overjoyed, impatient for the day when they could get down a bet-everybody, that is, but the local Poujadists. They plastered the town with posters: "Bourbouliens, whom are they making a fool of? If poor little Pyrame is wheezing or broken-winded, there's a way to deal...
...Kountz's first patients for hormone treatment was a woman of 78. She was bearded, diabetic and grouchy; she often used her wooden leg as a club when a doctor approached her. She was put on estrogens. After three months, he recalls, "she became one of the sweetest persons in the hospital. She began to menstruate regularly, her beard went away, and she went home...
...does any good to get an old woman menstruating again, point to the danger of excessive vaginal bleeding, and the chance that erotic interests may be overstimulated in either sex. Dr. Kountz recognizes these risks-he has had such cases himself, especially in the early days of the treatment-but claims that it is all a matter of control; if the doses are right, so, usually, are the results...
...that the seminar on geriatric medicine would make a flat recommendation that medical schools set up professorships in geriatrics, thus help their branch of medicine to become a distinct and recognized specialty. But the dead hand of custom-plus the legitimate arguments of some experts anxious not to isolate treatment of the aged from general medicine-denied them this prize. Instead, they won a recommendation that medical schools give "more emphasis" to gerontology and geriatrics. Nowhere in the country is there a chair of geriatrics, or any course specifically devoted to geriatrics in any medical-school curriculum...