Word: tubercular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Eastern finish their education in Holland's Universities; The Scuola Citta Pestalozzi, an experimental school in Florence's most overcrowded and poorest districts for the aid and education of orphans and children of poor families; and a central aid committee in Paris which relays specially prepared packages to tubercular students in universities throughout France...
...most other matters they are temperamentally total strangers. Studious Critic Daiches is chiefly interested in showing that if Stevenson had not been cut off in his prime, he would have parked his little scooter and become as profound and dignified as Sophocles and Shakespeare. Romantic Novelist Stevenson (a tubercular who was to die in Samoa at 43) was chiefly interested in enjoying the lively, glamorous places to which his scooter carried...
...recent article of the 13th of November concerning the revitalized Service Fund Drive, I feel insufficient emphasis was placed upon the effect of the Cambridge Tubercular Commission's plan to distribute the Christmas seals by mail throughout the Houses. The Student Council's position on any type of solicitation by mail is one of disapproval, even though these solicitations are for worthy causes, such as the Tubercular Association. We have told the Tubercular Commission that any such action would mean that their allotment of the money received from the Service Fund Drive would automatically be cut off. They replied that...
...William Osler, probably the greatest medical teacher who ever lived, once warned his profession that the fate of the tubercular depended more on what they had in their heads than on what was in their chests. ... A germ or a peculiar condition of body cells is [not] the sum and substance of disease...
...concoction of hydrogen peroxide and glycerin, developed by Dr. Ethan Allen Town of Boston Dispensary, seems to be effective against a number of skin diseases and certain tubercular infections. The mixture has shown best results against diabetic ulcers, tuberculous neck glands, Vincent's angina, tonsillitis, impetigo, boils...