Word: coumarin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from warfare, but from the initials of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, plus the -arin ending of the coumarin family...
Arteriosclerosis. Far more likely than the problematical spasm as the cause of Eisenhower's stroke is a thrombus. The President has been taking anti-clotting drugs of the coumarin family six days a week ever since his 1955 heart attack. They have been shown to be highly effective in cutting down recurrence of clots caused by embolism (TIME, Feb. 4), but it is not yet certain that they prevent thrombosis...