Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failed to grow. The cancer had been neutralized by an immune mechanism in the blood of the first, untreated rats. ¶ Properdin, a chemical that occurs naturally in the blood, is one of the factors in immunity. Zymosan. a yeast product, raises the properdin level if given in small doses, but bigger doses make it fall sharply. Dr. William T. Bradner reported that after small shots of zymosan, 67% of transplanted cancers in mice disappeared, as against only 6% in untreated mice. But as the zymosan dose was increased, the cure rate plummeted...
...miserable childhood and his flops as a vacuum-cleaner salesman and a bandleader, speaks his outraged pieces on such hallowed British institutions as the scandalous News of the World, gaitered bishops, church bells, U.S. evangelists and dear old Mummy ("My God, those worms will need a good dose of salts the day they get through...
Reddish and only ¼in. long, the fire ant has a peculiar talent: it chews a slit in the skin of its victim, lifts the skin with its mandibles, curves its abdomen under its body and injects a dose of fluid which causes fiery pain, raises angry welts, and may form a pocket of pus. Victims highly sensitive to ant poison may be hospitalized for weeks; a baby in New Orleans was killed by the ants...
...postmortem, when it was made, established the fact that Mrs. Hullett died of an overdose of barbiturates, but even though a coroner's inquest called it suicide, the Crown insisted last week that "the circumstances amount to murder by Dr. Adams, whether [Mrs. Hullett] administered the fatal dose herself or whether...
Another source of ACTH is the tiny hog pituitaries (generally used in the U.S.), but it takes half a dozen of them to make a single average medical dose. The worldwide demand for the hormone is now so great that many manufacturers are turning to the far larger whale glands -the size of an egg. Melville's pelagic Cain now helps to supply doctors with a valued treatment for at least 30 diseases, from common and crippling rheumatoid arthritis to scleroderma...