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...Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, by Peter Weiss, is a hypodermic needle plunged directly into the playgoer's emotional bloodstream. It hypnotizes the eye and bruises the ear. It shreds the nerves; it vivisects the psyche-and it may scare the living daylights out of more than a few playgoers...
...England Journal of Medicine, may be something as routine as a therapeutic abortion or surgical repair of a woman's genitalia after a difficult delivery. The surgery, they suspect-on the basis of a near-fatal case of PPLO blood poisoning-may help to spill PPLO into the bloodstream. British researchers have also incriminated PPLO in puerperal fevers and fevers following gynecologic surgery...
...precautions, he is put in a hospital and given more intensive chloroquine treatment, sometimes with the addition of quinine. Refractory Strain. Malaria parasites have complex life cycles that differ with different species. Antimalarial drugs work by attacking the parasites when they are most accessible and vulnerable, usually in the bloodstream. In theory, a man who is taking his chloroquine regularly should not get malaria. But just as some bacteria have become resistant to penicillin, so have some falciparum parasites developed enough resistance to chloroquine to be labeled "refractory" by Army medics. Most servicemen hospitalized for malaria...
...subcortical region of the brain and help control general alertness; it also seems to stimulate the respiratory center. But why does methylphenidate appear to be safer than other drugs? Dr. Hoagland suspects that the answers may eventually be traced to the drug's rapid excretion from the bloodstream and into the urine. "But until we understand more about coma," says he, "we cannot hope to understand Ritalin." Meanwhile, despite such gaps in medical knowledge, Dr. Hoagland suggests that emergency rooms should take advantage of the drug's unique qualities...
...hours and 37 minutes to deliver it. In the speech, Johnson stresses the War on Poverty and lashes out at "those centers of population in this beloved country where the disparity between the rich and the poor is only too evident, where evil is inevitably spawned to clog the bloodstream of our nation. These centers --suburban Phoenix, suburban Los Angeles--must be rehabilitated," he emphasizes...