Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Medical Association has been warring against questionable treatment ever since the group was founded in 1847. Yet the battle is endless and so far from being won that this month the A.M.A. convened what it called a national conference on quackery in Chicago.* The A.M.A.'s president-elect, Manhattan's Dr. Gerald D. Dorman, sadly reported that if today's Americans cannot find the quacks they want in the U.S., they will go halfway around the world for them...
...Europe, said Dorman, the "rejuvenators" hold forth, promising to "make you young again" or revitalize a "wornout" part of the body. He cited Rumania's Dr. Anna Asian, who claims to restore senile and decrepit patients with injections of procaine (Novocain) and vitamins. American patients have tried the treatment with no medically provable benefits. If Asian's claims were true, says Dr. Nathan Shock of the National Institutes of Health, "you'd be adding ten years to your life every time the dentist filled a tooth...
...organs of unborn lambs are injected (TIME, Aug. 31, 1959). Niehans is hardly in the same league with some of the practitioners cited by Dorman; he is a licensed physician with the proper credentials and an impressive personality. He carefully selects patients who are likely to respond to his treatment, which includes rest, good care and good food, and excludes liquor and tobacco. That is enough to insure that many will feel better. But there is no scientific evidence that his cellular treatment has any value, said Dorman, and of course any injection of foreign protein could cause...
...drug, "Laetrile." It also forbids shipments between provinces of "Liefcort," a hormone preparation for arthritis dispensed by Dr. Robert Liefmann in Montreal. Liefmann is now appealing in the Quebec courts against a medical board decision suspending him from practice for five years, for allowing unlicensed assistants to give his treatment...
...excellent coordination and easily learn good balance on skates and bikes. They want playmates, but treat them so badly that they are soon shunned by the other kids on the block. In school they drive teachers up the walls with their disruptive, destructive behavior. If they reach adolescence without treatment, says Martin, they are candidates for the juvenile courts...