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Word: acidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CLARK COOPER OF NO. 14OI WHITTIER STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. IS THE PERSON WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE WORK ON NICOTINIC ACID [TIME, JAN. 2], NOT DR. CLARK COOPER OF IOWA. DR. COOPER'S CONTRIBUTIONS WERE MADE WHILE HE WAS MY ASSISTANT IN CINCINNATI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...George Bernard Shaw, went the title of Cineman of the Year for having discovered a rich mine of dramatic material when other famed producers had given up all hope of ever tapping it. Men of the Year, outstanding in comprehensive science, were three medical researchers who discovered that nicotinic acid was a cure for human pellagra: Drs. Tom Douglas Spies of Cincinnati General Hospital, Marion Arthur Blankenhorn of the University of Cincinnati, Clark Niel Cooper of Waterloo, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man of the Year, 1938 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...stomach, that alcohol taken in small quantities does not inflame the stomach at all. Drs. Douthwaite and Lintott had noticed that many patients suffered heartburn after taking aspirin. They collected 16 patients who were willing to endure the discomfort of a gastroscope, gave them three tablets of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) crushed in one ounce of water. Through the gastroscope the doctors saw most of the 16 glistening pink stomachs turn at once to a "dusky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stomach Irritants | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...future when a man behaves in a criminal manner, we will not say he is crazy or vicious. . . . Instead we will know that too much pyruvic acid has accumulated in his thalamic cells, or that there is no cocarboxylase, a high-brow term for Vitamin BI, operating in his thalamus. We will be able to tell that he did not grow enough association neurones descending from his cortex, so that now he does not deliver enough acetylcholine to his mid-brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Biochemist's Boast | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Snuff for Ulcers. Peptic ulcers are erosions of the wall of the stomach or duodenum caused by excessive secretion of pepsin, hydrochloric acid and other powerful digestive juices. Dr. Matthew Hill Metz and Robert W. Lackey, Ph.D., of Baylor University, Dallas, Texas, reported that they had healed 55 out of 60 peptic ulcers by giving the patients two-thirds of a grain of powder, ground" from dried pituitary glands of cattle, to sniff four times a day. Injections of pituitary extract directly into the blood stream were tried at first, but they caused disagreeable reactions. Inhalation resulted in slower absorption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patching | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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