Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still another way of comforting a cancer victim was suggested early this year by the late Dr. Willy Meyer of Manhattan. He applied deep X-rays to the cancer, gave the patient dilute hydrochloric acid to offset any acidosis, and made him breathe a mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen. Dr. Carl William Hoefflich of Houston, president of the Associated Anesthetists of the U. S. and Canada, tried the Meyer treatment on his mother, 82. Reported he last week: "The growth has greatly decreased in size and the pain is gone. In fact, my mother has been doing much...
Providence, Rhode Island, October 28--Meeting for the thirty-third time, the undefeated teams of Harvard and Brown will undergo an acid test of superiority tomorrow...
Last fortnight a eugenist reported that women loaded with lactic acid would bear daughters while alkaline women bore sons (TIME, Sept...
Last week three Yale investigators- Drs. Harold Edwin Himwich & Louis Herman Nahum, assisted by N. Rakieten -reported to the International Congress of the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology at Rome, that alcohol loads the body with lactic acid. If drinking women bear daughters and abstainers bear sons, thence arises a problem in progeny for eugenists and sociologists to resolve...
...Acidic Girls, Bicarbonate Boys. Through Dr. Sanders (see above) Dr. F. Unterberger of Koenigsberg sent word that if women drink great quantities of bicarbonate of soda, they will bear only sons. A lactic acid diet produces only girls. Dr. Unterberger verified his theory with 78 daughter-surfeited German women. All but one bore sons. The exception had broken her alkaline régime. Six cows fed lactic acid each produced a female calf...