Show GERMAN KURS NOT CL CURES RES error of translator causes a cines value to be overestimated many newspapers are hasty in announcing noun cing the discovery in germany of 0 some bome method of treatment more of 1 less ess new and not infrequently misinformation is given the public through the failure to keep in mind the actual meaning of one little word the german word kur does not mean cure although it is not an uncommon tiling thing to find it so BO translated into english to cure cuie in english means to restore to health to effect a cure but in other languages it ii means merely to apply a method of remedial treatment of disease medical or hygienic care method of medical treatment the 1 e german U e z au word for lestor atlon to health is helling he hel ilung lung not kur ta tbt latin word cura ine means ans merely care a shade of meaning which la is preserved in the derived term terin curator an italian physician was recently made to say when his article was translated into english 1 I cured ten typhoid patients last month and six of them died what he really said was that he had treated ten patients from the journal of the amerlean american medical association |