Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently, they were unimportant hazards in the human environment; evolution largely ignored them. Modern man can wander unheeding into strong radiation that he cannot feel, see, hear, smell or taste. And unless he carries an artificial radiation sense (a Geiger counter, ionization chamber, etc.), he may get a fatal dose without a suspicion of an alarm...
...Allergists inject various kinds of pollens under the skins of their patients in order to desensitize them -a long and costly process that is only occasionally successful. Still under investigation is what the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases calls "one-shot immunization." Patients are inoculated with a dose of ragweed pollen in oil in an effort to build up natural immunity. Thus far, the one-shot method has helped hundreds of patients, but hundreds of others have suffered from rashes and the raising of ugly lumps...
...have had part of their stomachs cut out. In the future, such radical operations may not be necessary. Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen and his inventive research team at the University of Minnesota Hospitals have devised a method of avoiding operations (gastrectomies) simply by giving the stomach a short, quick dose of deep freezing...
...said Mrs. Barbara Powers, 27, when Moscow released her husband Francis Gary Powers, after a 21-month imprisonment for his U-2 spy flight. Last week, two months after resuming her eight-year marriage (no children), raven-haired Barbara Powers swallowed 28 Nembutal sleeping pills-a near fatal dose-and lay unconscious for several hours in Washington's Georgetown University Hospital before she was removed from the danger list...
...within three months after a heart attack, advocated building up in stages after that from 1.25 mg. to 5 mg. a day. Los Angeles' Dr. Jessie Marmorston reported that she got good results (TIME, June 15, 1959) without ever going over 1.25 mg., and that on this small dose her patients are not noticeably feminized. But Dr. Stamler insisted that bigger doses are necessary, and some feminizing is unfortunately unavoidable...