Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking for the Führer, he said that the Chamberlain reply was "insolent" and "stupid." It was "totally devoid of vision" or "comprehension of the world situation." The Prime Minister's failure to grasp the "outstretched hand" of the Führer meant that the British wanted to annihilate the German nation. "Let's see who will be annihilated," snapped Press Chief Dietrich...
...generally willing to undergo any heroic measure to set his world straight again. One of the best treatments for neurosyphilis (including tabes dorsalis, general paresis) is injections of tryparsamide, a penetrating arsenic compound. Tryparsamide has one tremendous drawback: it sometimes injures, sometimes destroys, the optic nerve, produces flickering vision, a narrow range of sight, even blindness. Yet doctors dare not do without the drug, because in cases of advanced syphilis it is one of the best safeguards against insanity and death...
...neurosyphilitics with various forms of vitamin B before they got their routine tryparsamide injections. Some were given doses of cod-liver oil, as well as two yeast tablets a day; others were also given intravenous injections of the synthetic vitamin. Only one of the 50 suffered any disturbance of vision. When the vitamin was given to a number of tryparsamide "shock victims" whose eyes were already failing, they reported a quick and remarkable improvement...
Realizing what the Mahatma's good will means, Lord Linlithgow lost no time in cordially inviting the aged Indian boss to talk over "cooperation." Mr. Gandhi, no longer the flaming revolutionary of yore, obviously would have liked to oblige his British friends. Plagued with the vision of a possible bloody revolution in India should the British be forced to leave (and there is nothing he abhors more than blood), the Mahatma has of late become one of Britain's stanchest friends. But he was on a spot, for if he came out flatly for war support, his smart...
Encephalitis. Less widespread than poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), but more destructive, is encephalitis. Young victims are often left stupid, shuffling, problem children, older ones drooling cripples, with muscular tremors, mumbling speech, double vision. Twelve years ago Chemist William John Matheson gave several hundred thousand dollars for a study of the disease. The fund has dwindled, for the Matheson Commission takes no money for treatment. Executive secretary of the Commission is capable Dr. Josephine Bicknell Neal who has investigated a remarkable Bulgarian belladonna treatment for chronic cases, long used in Europe. These tablets which Dr. Neal considers "by far the most effective...