Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look for it. But occasionally the typhoid bacillus (Salmonella typhosa), as if to keep its charter in the society of menaces, strikes back. This year a baffling outbreak has spread across three Midwestern states. It hit Minnesota most severely in January, Iowa in April. Wisconsin has had a gradual dose of it since the first of the year. To date there have been 121 cases (one death, in Iowa). The victims were from both urban and rural areas, ranged in age from six months to 74. A puzzling feature: no family has had more than one case...
...said, the vaccine would give close to 100% protection against paralytic polio. In a 1955-56 study of 4,167 children, he found that only 4.8% had sufficient polio antibodies before vaccination. After the first shot, 43% had protection against all three polio virus types. After the third dose, administered a year later, 98.5% were found to have three-way immunity. Salk emphasized his prescription of a three-shot schedule: two shots two to six weeks apart, and the third about seven months later. But even one shot is far better than none, for it may protect the central nervous...
Radiation Budget. To be reasonably though not wholly safe, the committee believes that the average radiation dose for the general population should not rise above 10 r of man-made radiation between conception and 30 years. It recommends that records be kept for each individual, giving the complete history of exposure to radiation. Then a nation can know the prognosis of its posterity...
...population, to avoid genetic trouble on a large scale. Individuals can take more without much additional risk to first-generation children, but the committee suggests a top limit of 50 r to age 30 and an additional 50 r to age 40. This is much less than the maximum dose permitted in Atomic Energy Commission laboratories:. 3 r per week or 15.6 r per year. The committee believes that all work involving high radiation exposure should be done, for the good of the race, by people who do not expect to have more children...
...Connecticut Avenue apartment when the bedside telephone jangled. Over the wire came the voice of Mamie Eisenhower: the President was turning and tossing with a stomachache. What should she do? Old Army Man Snyder was unworried; his patient had a record of stomach complaints. He recommended a small dose of milk of magnesia, turned off his bed light and went back to sleep...