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...cure for tuberculous and undernourished children is becoming a recognized part of modern treatment for these conditions. It has been brought to its highest perfection by Dr. August Rollier and his colleague, Dr. Rosselet, in their clinic at Leysin, on one of the Alps near Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Here in the last 20 years more than 2,000 cases of surgical (bone and joint) tuberculosis have been treated, and more than 80% discharged as cured. The children are gradually exposed to the sun's rays until the whole body can be bared. In Winter the whole day is spent...
...Presidents, and directors of appropriate race for Asia, Europe and America. The Federation is to meet every two years and its geographical sections are to meet every year in turn. There is to be a central office and research bureau which will be established for the present-not at Geneva or The Hague-but in the United States. The interests of the Federation shown by the resolutions adopted at its final conference are enough to make Senator Lodge turn over in what his enemies describe as his political grave. The Federation is interested in graduate scholarships at Government expense...
...medical officer of that Department until he was called to Albany. His national and international activities included membership in the War Relief Commission of the Rockefeller Foundation, the General Medical Board of the Council of National Defense and the Medical Advisory Committee of the League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva, Switzerland, of which he was medical director for the year...
...York Call (Labor), which is pink even to its book review section on Sundays, was cited by Industrial and Labor Information, published at Geneva, Switzerland, as an authority on labor matters in America. Industrial and Labor Information is the organ of the International Labor Office of the League of Nations. The Call stuck this feather in its phrygian...
When Lord Robert Cecil was in America, Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania wrote him a letter on the opium question, addressing him: " My Dear Mr. Cecil." At a recent conference at Geneva of the Opium Commission of the League of Nations the two came face to face for the first time. " Would you like to meet Representative Porter?" some one asked Lord Robert...