Word: camphorous
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...third serious heart attack. Since his physician, Dr. Aminta Milani, was also sick with flu. Dr. Filippo Rocchi was called. Scarcely had he arrived when the Pope became unconscious. His pulse was feeble, his heartbeat almost inaudible. As a stimulant, Dr. Rocchi gave the Pope an injection of camphor oil* and half an hour later he regained consciousness...
...physicians do not often use camphor oil as a stimulant, claim that it does little or no good...
Schizophrenia. Nourishment of the brain depends upon two important substances: sugar and oxygen. Modern treatment for schizophrenia is shockingly severe. When a schizophrenic is given insulin, his brain gets little sugar and shock ensues. Given metrazol, a drug with a camphor-like action, he goes into convulsions, stops breathing, shock ensues. Such shock blots out hallucinations, or delusions of persecution. Main trouble with insulin or metrazol treatment, however, is that the profundity and length of the shock cannot be easily controlled. Dr. Harold Edwin Himwich and associates of Albany Medical College reported in the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental...
...McKesson & Robbins, Inc., whose 1928 expansion was underwritten by Goldman, Sachs and Bond & Goodwin, Dr. Coster transferred a private enterprise of his own, the business of trading in crude drugs from far places-China wood oil, camphor from Japan, Javanese quinine. McKesson & Robbins' crude drug department was very much the private concern of President F. Donald Coster...
...gossip is Sylvia (Ilka Chase), a gabby troublemaker who has her children by Caesarean section, preserves her bosom with applications of icewater and camphor, cheats on her husband and lands in Reno. About half the more prominent members of The Women's, dramatis personae land there with her in Act II. There they meet an indelible character named the Countess de Lage (Margaret Douglass). The Countess has married three fortune-hunters and a Reno cowhand, and she still puts her faith in "l'Amour." Mary Haines, hoping until the last that her husband will call her back, succeeds...