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Word: bloods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worse. He flew back. Alighting from his plane at Oklahoma City he sprained an ankle. He limped to a phone, learned that his daughter was rallying, his wife slipping. So Mr. Whisenhunt flew back to Kansas City. There Mr. Whisenhunt himself developed, in quick succession, a toothache, ptomaine poisoning, blood-poisoning. At week's end wife and daughter were out of bed, Mr. Whisenhunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Whisenhunt's Woes | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...lead glass were blown deep into the lungs of anesthetized cats, Dr. Barclay and his associates found that the dust in dry form remained in the windpipe and its branches, never penetrating into the little sacs (alveoli) which absorb oxygen from the air and eliminate carbon dioxide from the blood. They could see by X-ray the foreign particles moving from the base of the lungs up & out. The movement they discovered was spiral and (viewed from above) clockwise. Particles traveled 1½ inches per minute within a cat's windpipe. When administered in oil or other fluids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cleansing Cilia | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...sometimes make strange, wonderful and unexplained cures. One such is Dr. Burr Ferguson of Birmingham. Ala., who claims to cure practically every known disease by injections of diluted hydrochloric acid. In some cases he succeeds. He thinks his treatment works because the hydrochloric acid stimulates the production of white blood cells which destroy germs and help to heal wounds. Medical scholars pay no attention to him or his medication. On the other hand, many country doctors believe in Dr. Ferguson and use diluted hydrochloric acid (now widely sold in sterile ampules) and sometimes, somehow, cure their patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Charcoal Treatment | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...widow; neither could legally do so, because both had wives, although neither knew where his wife was. At this stage of these unusual proceedings, the publicity-wise president of Chicago's board of health, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, father of six, came forward. He had samples of blood drawn from the men, mother and infants to make tests for paternity. A child inherits the characteristics of his parents' bloods in much the same manner as he inherits the shape and color of their eyes. Dr. Bundesen found that either Ersing or Timoteo could be the father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fathers and Twins | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...judge agreed with him. Said Dr. Bundesen last week: "Since the twins are unlike and one is smaller than the other, there is a possibility that they may have two fathers. But the fathers won't listen to that. They don't even think much of the blood tests." As for the widow, whose name Dr. Bundesen kept private, 'I think she has a preference [between the men]. But she's leaving the decision to me." Meanwhile, Chicago, whose relief funds are exhausted, had on its hands the jobless men, the helpless twins, the widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fathers and Twins | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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