Word: dose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biography might not solve the whole problem of education, but a really substantial dose of it would act to make up one vital lack in most undergraduate curricula. It would help correlate the divergent fields of educational effort, and educators are coming more and more to agreement that lack of correlation is the principle fault of their trade...
Doctors' Wives (Fox). There is a good idea in Doctors' Wives, some passable acting, and one splendid sequence in an operating theatre. There is in it also a good solid dose of dramatic hokum and Warner Baxter's eyebrow mustache, an adornment which does not seem to become an eminent surgeon. The idea is that doctors' wives are jealous of their husbands' time and suspicious of their chances for intimate propinquity to attractive women. For Joan Bennett, daughter of a doctor, and married to the doctor (Baxter) who was called to her father...
When the child was one year old, she received toxin-antitoxin against diphtheria. The serum came from a horse. Last year she was exposed to diphtheria. The doctor injected a protective dose of antitoxin (derived from a horse) in her left buttock. The part swelled. Three days later the doctor found diphtheria germs in cultures from her nose and throat, and at once gave her a large dose of antitoxin in the right buttock. That antitoxin also came from a horse. The left buttock was still swollen. Within a few days the right buttock swelled and, as the days passed...
...Toronto Dr. Charles Herbert Best, co-discoverer of insulin,* was demonstrating the use of a drug to some medical students. He proposed to inoculate each member of the class with a slight dose of the drug; to prove it unharmful he gave himself a shot in the arm first. Immediately he was ill, had to retire for a rest of several hours. Investigation disclosed that the label on the bottle of the drug indicated a solution 100 times less powerful than...
Then Dr. Anderson explained what Doc Dobbin had done to deserve the party. When he was five years old a dose of diphtheria germs was injected into Doc Dobbin's flank. Within a day, he felt sick. A week later when he had recovered he was given another dose. After the third injection, each succeeding dose was increased. At the end of three months, Doc Dobbin could stand ten times as much diphtheria poison as he had first received. He had formed substances in his blood to fight the germs. Laboratory men withdrew blood from Doc Dobbin...