Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shakespeare's contemporaries carried on their persons, usually in rings, certain "stones" cut from the heads of big, old toads. Toad-stones "touching any part envenomed by the bite of a rat, wasp, spider or other venomous beast, ceases the pain and swelling thereof." This hermetic treatment seems to have had some value...
...Chinese still go to toads for materia medica. The dried venom of certain of their toads they give internally to break up colds and apply externally to treat toothache and local inflammations. The apparent effectiveness of Chinese toad venom induced Johns Hopkins to assign its Dr. Hans Jensen and R. K. Chen to examine the dried venom. Last week they reported that...
Other Rockefeller Foundation 1928 expenditures went as usual to promote the development of medical knowledge by aiding schools of medicine, nursing and hygiene in various parts of the world (including 18 medical schools in 14 countries) and to promote public health by helping governments fight certain diseases (yellow fever in Brazil and West Africa, hookworm in 21 countries, malaria in the U. S. and elsewhere...
...student universally has objected to the mechanical aspect of education, that is, so many units, so many courses, so many hours of lectures, so many examinations as the components of a college degree. The student with initiative and the desire to study certain things as he saw fit has been highly irked at this situation, this production of brains by mass methods...
Stanford's Independent Study Plan endeavors to give certain latitude to the student and at the same time put definite checks on him that will make him direct his studies and get something from them. Stanford Daily