Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Producer-Host Robert Montgomery, TV aide-de-camp to President Eisenhower, rang down the curtain on his hour-long NBC dramatic show after a seven-year run. The last play was Faust '57, a disjointed modern treatment of the classic tale about a pact with the Devil-and an ironic choice, since the program had been going to hell all season. The passing of Robert Montgomery Presents is lamentable not only in light of its past glories but because it reflects the sudden high casualty rate among" TV's live dramatic shows. Others canceled for next season...
...instead of emptying the 1,800 beds in Florida's four TB hospitals, the early-release program has kept them from 86% to 96% full by bringing in newly detected cases for quick drug treatment. (Florida reflects the national trend. From 1954 to 1956 the nation's TB beds, excluding those of the Veterans Administration, declined by only 8%, from...
When Mark Twain toured Europe in 1891, he discovered that France had just the treatment for his rheumatic right arm: a soothing bath of spring water at Aix-les-Bains. "I began to take the baths and found them most enjoyable," he wrote, "so enjoyable that if I hadn't had a disease I would have borrowed one just to have a pretext for going...
Frenchmen still agree that the water cure is as much a treat as a treatment. From their beginnings they have resolutely tried to drown their ills-real or borrowed-in the country's 2,500 springs that are laced with such life-giving elements as arsenic, sulphur, carbon, magnesium and uranium. "More than one person sang the praises of wine," wrote French Poet Paul Valery. "I love water...
...Gregg joined the foundation in 1919, promoted generous grants to help finance the proving of sulfanilamide (first of the modern wonder drugs) and of penicillin, backed sex studies (including those of the late Alfred C. Kinsey), and pioneered the concept of mental illness as a disease needing specialized treatment...