Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Choosing to make entertainment out of such funereal subject matter required no small amount of guts on the part of the director, Michael Powell. His decision showed conviction in his own powers to lift the production above the gloominess of its surroundings and give it not only a large dose of social conscience, but the powerful entertainment value that comes of great tragedy. Those forces which could have killed the picture so easily,--the greyness and desolation of the set, the start, decadence of the characters,--were capitalized on by Powell to give the picture the incredible strength which...
...seconds. But still the skeptical scientists claimed that oxalic acid was poisonous. Dr. Brown promptly rolled up his sleeve, displayed an arm pockmarked from hundreds of injections, brandished a hypodermic needle. When no one volunteered to give him an injection of the acid, he gave himself a standard dose, thus convinced his timid colleagues that the acid was harmless. What he was unable to say, however, was why pure oxalic acid produced the opposite effect of the derivative form...
...combined X-ray and distilled water treatment . . . the range of successful application of X-rays in the treatment of cancer will be materially increased. For, at present, good results cannot be obtained in many cases because the tumor is so insensitive to X-rays that the large dose required to kill it will cause too much damage in adjoining normal tissue...
...times when the President of the U. S. has to defer most serious matters because he has a common cold. Last week was such a time for Franklin Roosevelt. He took the case out of the hands of his physician, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire, and downed a big dose of castor oil. "Make it short, boys," was his plea at his subsequent press conference. But before the cold took hold, he devoted a press conference to Taxes and Economy. Said...
Sulfapyridine is made in 0.5-gram, yellowish-white tablets, which can be crushed in milk or fruit juices and given in small doses every few hours. Within 24 hours after the first dose, patients usually show remarkable improvement. Sometimes the drug produces nausea, vomiting or severe headache. In other cases, sulfapyridine, like sulfanilamide, may produce a dangerous decrease in the number of red blood corpuscles. Hence, it is necessary for physicians to take daily blood counts of their pneumonia patients, and give them blood transfusions if the action of sulfapyridine becomes toxic...