Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time she snorts powdered heroin she vomits. Soon enough she is warming capsules of Horse in a spoon over a burner, mainlining the drug directly into a vein. Each dose sends her into a nerveless Nirvana: "Nothing itself in a uniform of gold, and Nothing loomed bigger than Anything ever could hope to be." To get the nothing her dreams are made of, Diane takes to shoplifting, finally sinks to old-fashioned prostitution. At novel's end. Author Mandel feebly suggests that psychoanalysis may save...
...cancer patients experimentally infected with the new virus, four showed substantial improvement. The one drawback: relief is only temporary. The virus did not kill all the cancer before dying itself, and patients could not be given a second dose 'because they had developed an immunity to it. Said the institute: "[There] is as yet no proof that a curative virus for man can be developed, only hope for such an outcome based upon the experiments...
...benefits of radio-iodine extend to patients with chronic, congestive heart disease and angina pectoris. If, as is common in such cases, the healthy thyroid's activity is too high for a damaged heart, then a dose of iodine-131 can be used instead of the surgeon's knife to reduce the gland. Two-thirds of the heart cripples so treated at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital show worthwhile improvement, and half of these are so much better that they can lead nearly normal lives. Equally gratifying, the treatment releases many patients from the agonizing "tight" pains...
...shows that he needs another shot of atomic medicine. When he goes to a Gulf port on business, a local doctor watches his blood counts and reports back to San Francisco. If the white-cell count begins to go up ominously, there is still plenty of time for a dose of radiophosphorus to be flown to the Gulf Coast. The shipping man drives himself hard and feels fine...
Adventures in Two Worlds is a selection of such stories. All of them are true, most are charged with a strong dose of moral philosophy, and most read as easily as Author Cronin's best fiction. They also constitute the autobiographical confessions of a man who, like a true Scot, has always combined a passion for material success with a deep distrust of the pride of spirit that often comes with...