Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drug is a synthetic compound in the form of gray powders contained in gelatin capsules, soluble in water, and apparently administered by way of the mouth. Used in cases of pneumonia at the University of Rome and Italian military hospitals, it is claimed to have reduced the morality rate from 35% to 2%. Dr. Tomarkin's offer to treat the late Pope Benedict, who died from pneumonia, was at first refused by the Vatican authorities, but he was finally called in when the Pope's condition was desperate, too late to save the patient...
...theatrical managers have seized upon this national wave of immoral curiosity. They now have three ways (if one is to judge by fallible experience) of catching the communal eye of an avid but selective public. One is the judicious compound of the Semitic and the Hibernian*; another is the conservative use of the name Shakespeare; the third is the extravagant employment of courteous incontinence...
...isolated spot will be chosen on the experimental farm. An "unclimbable" fence will be erected to in-close a compound. A separate kennel, with large individual yards will be built for each breeding bitch. The animals will be cared for by two trained kennel maids who will rarely be permitted to leave the compound...
...only entrance to the compound will be through a cleansing room built into the fence. Whoever enters the compound must remove his outer clothing in this room, and then, stepping into an adjoining chamber, bathe and put on special clothing. Food will be cooked and sterilized outside and passed in through a special hatch...
Tryparsamide, a new arsenic compound developed at the Rockefeller Institute, for the treatment of African sleeping sickness, has been used with considerable success as a remedy for paresis at the Wisconsin Psychiatric Hospital, Madison, by Dr. Arthur S. Loevenhart, professor of pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin, and Dr. W. F. Lorenz, chief of the Hospital...