Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Theodore Rosenthal of New York City's Department of Health revealed that of 26,646 premarital blood tests taken in the city since the law became effective last July, only 1.34% or 358 cases showed positive results. This figure tallies very closely with the percentage of syphilis cases found in New Jersey and Connecticut tests. The figure is low, explained the Social Hygiene Association, because those who know they have the disease do not take the test, but wait until they are cured before being married. The percentage of positive cases represents persons...
...like drugs, such as novocain and procaine, into the canal of the spinal cord is objectionable because such injections act on the cord and brain, interfere with the heart. Anesthetics such as ether and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) are harmful because they cause a deficiency of oxygen in the blood streams of mother and child...
More significant than these findings, however, were microscopic examinations of cells of freshly killed and newly dead rabbits. Ordinarily the leucocytes (white blood cells) which circulate aimlessly through the body, flow with great rapidity to a site of infection, where they envelop and absorb the invading bacteria. No leucocytes gathered to defend the intoxicated rabbits. Contrary to common medical belief, said Dr. Pickrell, alcohol does not paralyze the defensive leucocytes. Rather it prevents the blood vessels from dilating and makes their walls impermeable, thus trapping the leucocytes and preventing their migration...
Holding aloft the costly ostensorium, which in a glass clip contained the Sacred Host-to Catholics the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ-Cardinal Mundelein gave to the 65,000 faithful the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament as lights in the Park blinked out and thousands of candles sprang into flickering glow. For a mercy, the rain held...
...Polish press that King Carol had threatened to move troops in defense of Czechoslovakia in case Hungary should try to take what she wanted by force. King Carol with a characteristic flourish announced he had been "deeply touched" by a petition from 50,000 Rumanians of Ruthenian blood who begged His Majesty not to let Hungary have Ruthenia...