Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner had FBI agents arrived on the scene than wild cries of "brutality" began to rise. After a visit by FBImen, a woman witness cut her wrists in a dramatic-but curiously unconvincing-gesture toward suicide. The janitor at the jail in Poplarville, questioned by agents, swallowed a nauseating dose of toilet-bowl cleaner. Farmer C.C. ("Crip") Reyer, 42, whose car looked like one seen at the jail, entered a hospital with a "nervous breakdown." Farmer Arthur Smith Jr., 32, went to a hospital with a "cerebral hemorrhage," which his doctor said was brought on by the strain...
...physician's favor that nothing will go wrong, the patient takes the risk." Doctors are familiar with such warnings; yet every week in the U.S. and Canada one or more patients die because what was meant to be a lifesaving transfusion turns out to be a death-dealing dose of incompatible blood (such as type A given to somebody with type B or O). How often does this happen...
...three classes of athletes," the researchers' report stated, "the majority of subjects performed better under amphetamine than under placebo." Over three-quarters of those receiving the drug did better than when performing with a placebo dose...
...happy chance, it turned out that the neon lamps light up when exposed to radar waves with a power density of only 5 or 6 mw. sq. cm.-about half the permissible dose for man. So they are perfect for the purpose, and last indefinitely, Dr. Johnson and two Navy medical colleagues report in the United States Armed Forces Medical Journal. Photo flashbulbs can also be used for a one-shot warning: they go off when exposed to still smaller doses of microwave radiation...
...crash program to nip a developing polio epidemic, a U.S. Public Health Service team recommends quick inoculation of the unvaccinated with a whopping shot of Salk vaccine-10 cc., or ten times the dose now given in each of three injections. In the New England Journal of Medicine they report no ill effects from such doses in volunteers, and much quicker development of immunity...