Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...There were 235,000 people who died of cardiac troubles last year in the U. S., and there must have been many times that number who suffered from these troubles who, I believe, could either be cured or relieved by such institutions as that we are endeavoring to build at Saratoga (TIME, March 3). I have been informed that more people die of cardiac diseases yearly than from cancer, pneumonia and tuberculosis combined. I do not say that Saratoga, when completed as a spa and health resort, could by itself cure or relieve any large proportion of these sufferers...
...California's Senator Hiram Johnson before the committee were Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber, cancer researchers at the Southern Pacific General Hospital, San Francisco. White-haired, horn-spectacled Dr. Coffey related his and his colleague's joint research, explained that their widely heralded "cancer cure" was "not a cure but an encouraging experiment." Dr. Coffey said that 1,506 cases, more than 1,300 them inoperable, had been treated with gratifying results. The Coffey-Humber extract, derived from the adrenal glands, which, when injected into a cancer sufferer, gives relief almost immediately (TIME...
...opposing school of thought holds that pellagra is due to an infectious agent which is allowed to grow in the body, due to its rundown condition. Both sides arrive at the same conclusion: proper diet is a preventive and cure...
...Cancer is treated by X-ray, radium, or surgery. The earlier competent advice is sought, the greater the chance of cure. It is not a shameful disease to be kept under cover. The average delay before seeking competent advice is eight months, but there should be no such delay...
...cannot cure disease by contemplating the difficulties before one. If cancer is suspected, go early to a competent physician or to a recognized cancer clinic...