Word: compound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of the disease, say Mayo's Drs. Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall. The problem: how to wake up the dormant curative powers in the body. Drs. Hench and Kendall have succeeded in doing it dramatically but temporarily with two hormones: cortisone, originally called compound E,* and ACTH (TIME, May 2). But they were cautious in their report, warned that the hormones are still extremely scarce and that it is too early to tell how safe the long treatment will...
...university who is also a serious baseball fan. One day, puttering with mysterious solutions in his laboratory, Milland accidentally hits upon a liquid mixture that repels wood. It takes the low-salaried chemist just a second longer than it takes he audience to see the possibilities of his wonderful compound. When the idea dawns, he skips out on his college sweeheart (Jean Peters), packs a couple of bottles of his tricky formula, and rushes off to St. Louis to make his fame & fortune on the baseball diamond...
Lacking sufficient quantities of Compound E, the group initiated experimental treatments which, it was believed, should stimulate the patient's hormones to give off Compound E. He said that their efforts had met with some success, and that patients had been benefited...
...After Hench and Kendall's discoveries at the Mayo Clinic that Compound E was effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, studies were made of the prolonged effect of ACTH on rheumatoid arthritis patients," Dr. Thorn said...
...Within 12 to 24 hours following suitable doses of ACTH, clinical improvement, similar to that reported by the Mayo Clinic group with their synthetic Compound E treatments, was observed in the patients...