Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young woman who belonged to G.H.A was taken to a hospital for operation given a stiff dose of morphine. Four hours later, "stupefied and nauseated," she left the hospital because her doctor was not allowed to operate there...
Last week two Johns Hopkins surgeons told how a bit of bird lore inspired a useful medical discovery. A Boston colleague, two summers ago, told them that when pigeons drain calcium from their bones to make eggshells, their legs and wings grow soft, spongy. But a stiff dose of female sex hormones toughens them up again. Drs. Ralph Gorman Hills and James Arthur Weinberg were so struck with this news that they went right out and tried female hormones on women whose bones were broken and did not knit. Last week, in the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, they...
Last week a country doctor in Missouri wired the A. M. A. that one of his patients had died after receiving a dose of sulfathiazole. A. M. A.'s Editor Morris Fishbein suspected that something was wrong with the drug. He promptly got in touch with the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, found that they had heard of the poisonous drug from the Massachusetts Health Department only four days before, already had sent hundreds of inspectors out to gather up the contaminated tablets...
...both half year courses. Lamb in Chem A is considered good and this course naturally should be taken in Freshman year by one who has had no chemistry and intends to concentrate. B and 3 are an excellent testing ground for the prospective concentrator since they give the initial dose of the kind of laboratory work that will be required. Forbes, while not an inspiring lecturer and at times hard to follow, is very thorough. some thought the gap between B and 3 to be extreme...
...with iron and nicotinic acid, will be generally restored to white flour by millers this month. Cost: two-tenths of a cent per pound loaf. The British Government ordered thiamin into bakers' recipes in July 1940. But Britons eat much more bread than Americans, get a more useful dose of B1 to buck up their war-strained health...