Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treatment is chancy, too. About 100,000 people get the vaccine each year (as a precaution, in most cases). How many die from it-because of inflammation of the brain and spinal cord-no one knows; the U.S. Public Health Service believes that it kills almost as many as are killed by rabies. Doctors have a grave responsibility in deciding whether to use the vaccine...
...Bell had not identified the paralytic factor when he found a way to get rid of it. All he knew was that it was contained in the brain tissue of animals (usually rabbits) from which the vaccine is made. The trick was to dissolve the brain tissue without killing the factor which prevents rabies. His years of work led to a tedious, complicated process in which the infected brain tissue is repeatedly dissolved, chilled, suspended, centrifuged and filtered until a "washed vaccine," untainted by the paralytic factor, is left...
...time police reinforcements broke it up two hours later, traffic was snarled for miles in every direction. At least eight were taken to the hospital for treatment, one of them stabbed in the side, another suffering from a brain concussion. Singer
...unseen but terrifyingly powerful bombardment lasted for three minutes and 20 seconds while Laughlin nursed his controls. When the machine's electrical brain reported that the prescribed dosage of 100 roentgens had been delivered to the patient, it shut itself off. "O.K.," said Laughlin, "that's it." Thus the University of Illinois unveiled its betatron, the first of such power to be used in the U.S. for medical treatment.* Its advantage over earlier X-ray producers, most of which generate no more than a sixtieth of its power, is in the penetrating power of its high-speed, ultra...
...tried to say so, they put their foot in it. "[The] irregular procedure," said Bethehem Steel Corp.'s President Arthur B. Hgmer, "appears to be designed merely as a vehicle for forcing upon us important concessions." He was cut short by Board Member Samuel Rosenman, ex-New Deal brain-truster.* "Am I to understand," he asked, "that because other boards recommended an increase, you assume that we necessarily were set up for [that] purpose...