Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of their 1933 experience St. Louis doctors generally feed (give injections of) concentrated glucose solution to sufferers. This is believed to reduce brain inflammation as well as build up a patient's strength. In four or five days the fever usually abates. The patient then is given blood from a survivor of the disease-by direct transfusion, by a hypodermic injection into the muscle of a buttock, or in the form of blood serum. Professors Howard Anderson McCordock and Walter Joseph Siebert of Washington University, who led in developing this blood treatment, last week admitted that they...
...African sleeping sickness," or trypanosomiasis, is caused by a microorganism introduced into the victim's blood by bites of the tsetse...
...inquiring reporter from Mars would soon discover, the Earth's most popular entertainers are not made of flesh & blood. They are a number of two-dimensional creatures whose native haunts are the animated cartoons. As every cinemaddict knows, the thousands of hand- drawn pictures that go to make up one of these cartoons are the work of many hands. Last May, at Manhattan's Max Fleischer Studios (Popeye, Betty Boop, Screen Songs, Color Classics) 76 members of the Commercial Artists & Designers
...cattle tick, unengorged, is about 1/10 by 1/20 of an inch. It is light yellowish or light greyish brown. The hatching larvae crawl up grass or weed stems and attach themselves to a passing animal. There they grow to adulthood in about 30 days, living on the blood of the host. They mate on the host, the female drops to the ground, lays her eggs, and dies. Fever induced by the tick kills cattle, stunts them, lowers their milk flow, damages their skins and hides...
Finishing touch to "curing me of my epoch" was added when Tony gave Mabel Dodge a dose of the Mexican drug peyote as a cure for dysentery. Awake all night, a clairvoyant vision showed her that "all this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight...