Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...from cancer have been mortgaging their homes, impoverishing themselves to get funds to carry them to San Francisco to be treated by Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber at their Southern Pacific General Hospital Clinic. Over the protest of Drs. Coffey & Humber. newspapers have heralded as a cure what the Doctors refer to as "encouraging experiment" (TIME, Feb. 24). Deluded into believing that sure, swift relief could be given them, some 1,500 people have rushed to the Clinic, more than could possibly be handled...
...more importantly on his home environment, his habits, and his character. Thus to herd in one ensemble first offenders, murderers, and speeders results merely in inoculating all with the anti-social virus of the most experienced and hardened lifer. The first necessity is segregation, according to possibilities of cure, for crime is largely a disease. Men with appendicitis are not placed in contagion-bearing wards...
...Wynne, who prepared and presented the credentials of the martyrs for canonization, is reticent on this point in his book, but last week the Vatican supplied a clear description. The miracles were performed in virtue of the martyrs collectively less than four years ago. They took the form of cures. The first miracle was that Sister Marie-Maxima of a religious House of St. Hyacinth in Quebec recovered "perfectly and instantaneously" on Dec. 30, 1927, from a prolonged attack of tubercular peritonitis. Second miracle was that Sister Savoie of the diocese of Chatham (Canada) had on July...
Searching for the cause and cure of a disease is very much like driving a nitroglycerine wagon: it seems safe at the time but trouble may come any moment. Trouble came last week to some researchers in the U. S. Public Health Service's laboratory at Washington. Searching for the cause and cure of psittacosis (parrot fever), eleven of them came down with the disease. The laboratory had to be closed, leaving psittacosis a momentary victor over the U. S. Government...
Value of this discovery lies in the probability that fever is a natural attempt of the body to kill off bacteria that are attacking it. By getting the jump on nature. Researcher Manning believes he will be able to cure ordinary colds, prevent pneumonia, treat other maladies...