Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flow of saliva and the digestive juices at the sight or smell of food. By a simple surgical operation, Pavloff brought the duct of a dog's salivary gland to the surface of the cheek and measured the flow under stimulus of food. At regular feeding times a bell was rung, and after several repetitions it was found that the sound of the bell alone, without food, stimulated the saliva. This process, known as a "conditioned reflex," has been repeated in scores of forms by physiologists and psychologists on both animal and human subjects. It forms the basis...
...clear notes fell on the heavy air from the ship's bell. The gangways were run in; the cables cast off. The ship's horn spoke-three loud blasts. With the rumble of the propellors, turbulent white water appeared at the great ship's stern. Then suddenly rain fell in torrents...
...lead shield, while the beta and gamma rays (negative) are allowed to reach the diseased tissue, have had good results. Colloids of certain elements, such as iodine, sulphur, lead, mercury, have strongly negative charges, and several American physicians are experimenting with colloidal sulphur, while the treatment of Dr. Bell, of Liverpool (TIME, June 11), is based on colloidal lead...
Winthrop Pickard Bell, Ph.D...
James Roeder Bell...