Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children, the new Army-tested influenza vaccine (TIME, Oct. 7) seems to be almost as bad as flu itself. Pediatricians have found that, for reasons still unexplained, children react to the vaccine much more violently than adults; as little as one-tenth of the normal adult dose (one cc) may produce high fever, chills, vomiting. Lederle Laboratories, a manufacturer of the vaccine, now advises against it for tots under two. Verdict of most leading pediatricians: for adults only...
These years on the scene, combined with his grasp of China's language and history, have given him a view different from that of journalists who hit the country and fly off in a few days. A quick dose of hearty, bluff, American-style democracy, or solid support of the right-wing Kuomintang power-group is not enough, he maintains. "The fact that the imperial tradition had the inertia of three thousand years behind it and was formally abandoned only in 1911 should give us pause. How can we reasonably expect that even a people so politically gifted...
Soon other cases turned up. Friedman treated them with the hospital's 1,000,000-volt X-ray machine, "Big Bertha," found that he could arrest their cancers if he adjusted the X-ray dose to the contents of the tumor, i.e., one dose for bone, another for lung, etc. All told, he treated 256 G.I.s with cancer of the testes, got a high percentage of improvement...
Precautions are observed during every "big" football weekend, said Durant, and a double dose of the same is being ladled out from University police headquarters in Grays Hall. "The nature of security," he asserted, "is such that you don't advertise it." Durant intimated, however, that the Yard force is as prepared for Yale exuberance as Uncle Dan Beard would have been for a damp book of matches...
...phial of potassium cyanide was all Hermann Göring needed to cheat the gallows (see INTERNATIONAL). The poison is a favorite with suicides. It is quick: five grains kill in 15 minutes; a heavier dose will do the job in two. Unless given immediately, antidotes are useless...