Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cholera is the most destructive. Symptoms are fever, loss of appetite, weakness (hog looks "lost in thought"), thirst. No cure is known, and pigs usually die within ten days. But cholera can be prevented by inoculating young pigs with anti-hog-cholera serum supplemented with a dose of the virus. Farmers should not put off immunization until cholera is reported near by: then it is too late...
...great Japanese naval and troop-transport center. From it, short and efficient supply lines radiate to forward bases above both shoulders of Australia-a score of spots such as Kupang on Timor and Gizo in the Solomons. From those forward bases, which like Rabaul have come in for a dose of heavy bombing, the Japs would launch any fresh offensive or organize any firm defenses in the Southwest Pacific Area...
...Agriculture's campaign. From almost any catalogue, neophyte gardeners can choose a victory garden combination ($1 and up) with full instructions how, when and where to plant it. With a little luck and work, they will have fresh vegetables on their tables all summer. With a normal dose of inexperience, they will also waste a lot of seed and fertilizer...
...treatment was tried by 25 patients. After a week on 100-mg. doses of vitamin C a day, eight out of 24 thought they felt a little better, one got a rash and quit. When the dose was upped to 200 mg. a day, one patient reported "no hay fever at all after years of suffering." Those who felt a little better before began feeling a lot better, and some who had not benefited from 100-mg. doses began to perk...
...felt fine. An asthma invalid became "astonishingly vigorous and healthy after one week." (But asthmatics sometimes improve on sugar pills - sometimes their illness is largely mental.) In a burst of bravery, sufferer No. 25, who had previously taken no vitamin C at all, took a 1,000-mg. dose. Next day he experienced "great relief...