Word: dose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth $50,000, were in the State Armory at Peoria, Ill. for the 18th National Pigeon Show, most important of the half dozen major pigeon fiestas held in the U. S. each year. First event of the show was nose drops. Because pigeons are susceptible to influenza, their owners dose them before big shows with cod-liver oil for prevention, Epsom salts if they develop sniffles. Before going to Peoria most of the entrants had been given warm baths, rinsed, flown in the sun to dry. For weeks their owners had trained them to handle tamely. When the judging started...
After several days of profound insulin shocks, the patient is allowed to rest, free from insulin, for one to three days. Then he is put through a "polarization" or tapering off course of gradually diminishing doses of insulin. Summed up Dr. Sakel: "The results do not depend upon the size of the dose of insulin, but rather on the proper termination at the right time of each shock. ... I should like to add that I used to think that only recent cases would show a satisfactory response to treatment. But later I realized that in some chronic cases...
Approximately five hundred Freshmen are caught annually in the net of English A. Aside from its questionable merits, the fact that it does not count towards a degree makes it a distasteful dose of medicine. The hope is held out that if a student gets an A at mid-years, he may drop the subject. The small number of students, about 12 a year, that can obtain this exemption indicates the severity of the requirement, which should be lowered to a full...
Twenty hours of drill are taken with each yearly dose of Military Science. This drill period is supposed to teach the practical handling of field artillery and, in addition, to instill vague qualities of "leadership and discipline." Twenty hours is an extremely short time in which to teach a single subject, yet the R.O.T.C. instructors have assigned to this period a dozen complicated and lengthy activities. The result is pitiful dabbling in each and success in none...
Lawyer McGranaghan believed that Chiropractor McGranaghan's license to practice chiropractic permitted him to do practically everything to the human body except dose it with drugs or alter it by major surgery. To establish this belief in law, Chiropractor McGranaghan, having pretended he was sick, sued another, friendly chiropractor, Dora Berger, for refusing to give him anything more than spinal adjustment within the letter of the law. Chiropractor Berger behaved properly, decided the court, ruling against Chiropractor-Patient McGranaghan. Lawyer McGranaghan appealed...