Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Eliot in his Inaugural Address suggested that "two kinds of men make good teachers--young men and men who never grow old." There is apparently no better method for aging a man prematurely than an over dose of modern scholarship. Professor Kirsopp Lake in his course on the Old Testament has a twofold method of instruction. He reads the King James Version of the Bible to his students so beautifully, so inspiringly, that they want to discover for themselves the beauty and the inspiration of the work. And be delivers for themselves the beauty and the inspiration...
...women there, almost 100, were getting the devoted care of the Dominican Sisters of the Congregation of St. Rose of Lima. They could picture the white-clad sisters wiping away the fetid pus from cancerous lesions, applying cool unguents, making the patients comfortable, even injecting a merciful dose of morphine...
...means dead in the U. S., but its distinctions from orthodox therapy are fading, both because homeopathy has adapted much of the orthodox technique and because orthodox medicine has approximated some of the homeopathic ideas. Samuel C. F. Hahnemann (1755-1843) worked out the principle of similars-a large dose of a drug gave the same symptoms on the healthy human body as did a certain disease. Therefore that disease and that drug poisoned the body similarly. If a minute portion of the drug were given to a patient so diseased, the minute portion would stimulate the body to resist...
...Washington as Vice President, was openly delighted last week. He gloated: "Mr. Kellogg had a nervous fit. There was perturbation in the Coolidge circle. The trouble was they had been thinking in terms of domestic publicity, not world publicity. What they got was world publicity, and a large dose at that...
...back as 1920 theorized, would slow up or stop the ova production of a patient and at the same time permit the continued creation of the sex hormones, stimulate the women. In the U. S. Dr. Harry Benjamin cautiously put this theory to practice. He uses a stimulation dose of X-ray one-seventh to one-tenth as strong as needed to produce erythema (redness). His conservative decision was that moderate, carefully regulated exposures of the ovarian sites to the X-rays induced good body and mental tone and vigor...