Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week declared that the Hansen gulp marked the first human consumption of heavy water. That was not quite true. From Germany two curious scientists recently reported drinking very dilute heavy water to mark the length of time that fluids remain in the body. But Professor Hansen's dose was the first recorded drink of heavy water in high concentration...
...Within the next few weeks, I shall either be seriously ill or able to tell what the effects are, for I intend to raise the dose by easy stages during the next fortnight to the final and testing drink of 100 grams [about three ounces...
...faced John Nance Garner of Texas. When the astute Vice President returned from Uvalde he found the New Deal's many mouthpieces virtually sticking their tongues out at one another in a veritable babble of contradictions. He spoke up in Cabinet meeting to say that he thought a dose of silence would be good for all concerned...
...France conquered the U. S. art world. At the famed Manhattan Armory show arranged by the late Arthur B. Davies, the U. S. public got its first big dose of the arbitrary distortions and screaming colors which were making France's crop of artists the most spectacular in the world. The War took the public's mind temporarily off art but at its end French artists were sitting on top of the world. U. S. painters, unable to sell at home or abroad, tried copying the French, turned out a profusion of spurious Matisses and Picassos, cheerfully joined the crazy...
...concerning antiserum against black widow spider venom. The serum has not been used on any human cases, nor would I sanction its use as so far developed. It is highly potent in the rat, 1/10 cubic centimeter (about two drops) will completely protect rats against eight average lethal doses when given immediately, and 1 cubic centimeter given three and one-half hours later will give prompt recovery against the same dose...