Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice seems doubtful. An Oregon medical investigator said that stocks of the quick-freeze spray are bought up as quickly as they are put on shelves in Portland. Said one Medford 17-year-old, who has taken advantage of the scarcity to sell the gas at 250 a dose in the past, "I don't think it's all over here. Kids will think Mike McCuan made a mistake. He used it wrong. Tried to get too high. They'll be back using it soon. Even after Mike died, a kid stopped me in the hall...
...running down a woman as she pushed her baby carriage across the street. Adzhubei could have been jailed for ten years if mother or child had been seriously injured. The woman did suffer a concussion, but the child was unhurt, and Adzhubei was let off with a small dose of humiliation and a public apology...
...Henry listed the drugs: one of the amphetamines, or "bennies"; phenobarbital, to reduce the nervousness caused by bennies; thyroid hormone, to increase metabolism; digitalis, the heart stimulant, for no discernible medical reason; and a thiazide diuretic to promote loss of body water. Each pill contained a safe daily dose of that particular drug, said Dr. Henry. But some of the dead women had taken several a day, and four of the thyroid or digitalis doses would be dangerous...
Worse still was the combination. Thyroid alone may make the heart more irritable. The thiazide diuretic and even the laxative reduce the body's store of potassium, and this definitely makes the heart more irritable. Then a heavy dose of digitalis would throw the heart into useless twitching. After a while the heart would stop. In all the cases studied, said Dr. Henry, the women were alone when they died. He sees confirmation of their cause of death in the cases of two women who were saved. One, who was about to be put in an iron lung, recovered...
...said Dr. Morgan, and 90% of this comes from diagnostic X rays. At Oak Ridge, where nuclear physicists are so conscious of radiation hazards that they have done everything conceivable to reduce them, the skin exposure from a chest X ray is 10 mR. This low and relatively safe dose can be matched in any well-equipped, properly run X-ray department and it is achieved by qualified personnel in many of the better hospitals. But, said Dr. Morgan, the equipment and methods vary so widely, especially in doctors' private offices, that the exposures for this one procedure range...