Word: treatments
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Academic freedom, weighted with difficulties (particularly of definition), hastily invoked upon the least provocation to justify any whim or action, is a term recklessly vulgarized and deserves better treatment. Academic freedom can be defined as that right which aids scholars in the pursuit of truth. This freedom ceases to be a right and becomes a revocable privilege when the student or teacher loses truth as the end and substitutes mere expression of opinion. If human fulfillment, to which the academy is devoted, is to be realized, an immutable truth, observed as the mind may comprehend it and confirmed by conscience...
...major step in chemistry and medicine, the synthesis of reserpine, an important drug in the treatment of mental disorders, was announced Saturday by Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb professor of Chemistry...
This was good, not bad, news to 250 delegates from 51 nations assembled in Rome. It meant that leprosy victims, so long shunted into isolation or secret shame by society's ancient fear of the disease, are now coming forward voluntarily to disclose their ailment and seek treatment. Doctors, missionaries, social workers and others who have labored for years against leprosy hoped they had finally dented the wall of rejection and abhorrence that has forced most leprosy victims to live a stigmatized life...
...Since the 12th century, the Knights have made the assuagement and treatment of leprosy one of their principal activities...
After ten days of treatment, Charlie was taken out of his "wind box." Doctors still had their fingers crossed (black magic has triumphed over white in half of the cases such as this), but Charlie continued to improve. Paralysis disappeared. His appetite returned. Charlie seemed convinced he was going to make it. Still weak, he will have to remain in the hospital for a month to regain his strength. Then he will be returned to his tribe, perhaps fortified sufficiently to resist the further machinations of his mother-in-law. Said Charlie gratefully: "White man, him very clever. White...