Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers at the University of Chicago Medical School were able to stop hemorrhage in people suffering from acute leukemia. (Hemorrhage is one of the reasons people die from radiation.) They used two drugs which worked equally well: toluidine blue, a tissue stain, and protamine sulfate, a protein compound. The doctors used the drugs on dogs that had fatal doses of X rays, and prolonged the dogs' lives 26 days. The drugs might, they think, be useful on human victims of radiation sickness...
...southeast Asia, equatorial Africa, northeast coast of South America, and up to the Caribbean islands), 189,000,000 people have filariasis, which causes swelling in the lymphoid tissues. About 20,000,000 people have oncocerciasis, which causes blindness when the worms get into the eyes. A new antimony compound called Neostibosan has proved effective against filariasis, and another new drug, hetrazan, against oncocerciasis...
...Atomic Energy Commission continued experiments with rutin, a complex chemical compound obtained from green buckwheat. In experiments with dogs at the University of Rochester, it reduced the death rate from radiation from 64% to 12% by checking internal bleeding, one of the effects of radiation...
...Ordinary Practice." In the old-fashioned auditorium in Nanking's Kuomintang compound, 300 members of the party's executive committee convened. Their purpose: to nominate a presidential and vice presidential candidate for election this month by the National Assembly. It seemed a foregone conclusion that Chiang would be the candidate for the presidency. The Generalissimo, who presided over the meeting, looked more solemn than usual. Mme. Chiang was in the audience. Then Chiang rose and began to speak, slowly and carefully...
Those classes less than 25 years out of the College have a special agreement with the Fund, whereby all money contributed is accredited at compound interest to the traditional $100,000 gift each class makes to the University on its twenty-fifth anniversary...