Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evident missionary zeal, Dr. Hammon was quick to point out that gamma globulin is far from being the weapon of final victory over polio (that is likely to be a vaccine). Its chief drawbacks: ¶It gives only "passive," short-lived immunity (five weeks' protection from an average dose). "Active," permanent immunity must still be developed by each individual in fighting off a mild attack by the polio virus-the kind of attack that often goes unnoticed or is mistaken for a cold...
There were moments of good clean farce, and a liberal enough dose of subtly amusing tidbits to make the picture enjoyable. Brandy for the Parson is not one of the really awful films that occasionally slip across the Atlantic, but for audiences spoiled by Alec Guinness' recent tours de force, it is bound to be somewhat of a disappointment...
After several years of wild inflation, Argentina is getting a massive dose of deflation. Partly this is the result of crop failures, which have cut rural buying power to the point where industrial workers are losing their jobs for lack of demand for their products. But another reason is that Juan Perón has embarked on a policy of credit restriction so drastic that many long-established commercial houses are being driven to accept short-term loans from private sources at interest rates ranging up to 10% a month...
...Indian doctors report great success in treating fever relapses with a single dose of inexpensive Camoquin; they have also found that later relapses are few, and spaced farther apart. U.S., British and Belgian researchers are hard at work testing yet another new drug, daraprim. A thousand times as powerful as quinine, it can be taken in tiny, tasteless doses, and newborn Negro babies in Africa show no ill effects. So far, varying results with daraprim reflect the protean nature of malaria itself...
Right from the first, Sam had what must have struck his family as an unusual sense of humor. Almost as soon as he could walk, he grabbed a handful of worms and happily devoured them. Mother topped that gag with a dose of salts. Soon after that, Sam took to sleepwalking, wound up one night in a stable, "astride the old gray horse". . . yelling like a wild Indian and [thinking] he was running a race...