Word: compounders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Animals inoculated first with human tuberculosis germs and then with the new drug developed only mild infections at the site of the injections. All those inoculated with germs but not the drug died of tuberculosis. The sulfanilamide compound, said Dr. Crossley, does not cure advanced tuberculosis, nor do the animal tests "permit any conclusion . . . as to the [drug's] efficacy in the treatment of this disease...
...special arrangement, all contributions made by members of classes not yet 25 years out of college are credited with compound interest toward the traditional $100,000 gift presented to the College by each class on its 25th anniversary...
...Harcourt, Brace ($5). *Argyrol was the first silver compound found strong enough to kill gonococci without injuring delicate membranes of eyes, nose, throat, bladder. Many hospitals still use it to protect the eyes of newborn babies against blindness caused by gonorrhea. † Others: The French Primitives & Their Forms, The Art of Henri Matisse, The Art of Renoir...
...arrived in Japan in 1853, Takashi Masuda (pronounced ma'-su-da) was six years old, son of a mining official on the island of Sado. The family moved to Yedo before it was rechristened Tokyo, and at 13 Takashi Masuda went to work as office boy in the compound where the first U. S. Legation was located. Every day he walked ten miles to work, seized every opportunity to learn English and study the commercial ways of Americans. Goggle-eyed with admiration for all things American, he stole American food from the kitchen, and even strangled pigs, dogs...
...Journal, quoting Dr. Arthur Joseph Cramp, the A. M. A.'s patent-medicine expert, points out that the 1939 label makes no promises at all. Said he: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is 'Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted.' This statement is about as informative as it would be to say that 'For Those Who Like This Sort of Thing, This is the Sort of Thing That Those People Like...