Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard treatment for shock all night." Suddenly Fred started to recover. And as consciousness returned, his first words were: "If Dad had been here, this wouldn't have happened." At home, Fred now gets two units of plasma a day. But as he continues to improve, that dose will be lowered. The doctors at Baylor plan to keep close watch over him, but now they are much more concerned with trying to figure out what saved him-the massive transfu sions, the great quantities of Blomback Fraction, or the brief dose of psychiatry. Whatever the vital treatment was, says...
...short for D-lysergic acid diethylamide), by far the most potent, is a chemical relative of the ergot drugs, synthesized in 1943 by Swiss Chemist Albert Hofmann. As Discoverer Hofmann found, and countless psychiatrists have since confirmed, a dose of LSD-25 can be so small as to be almost invisible and still destroy a man's mental equilibrium, at least temporarily. As little as four-millionths of an ounce is sometimes enough to throw an emotionally wobbly individual into a mental hospital. One victim, ill for months, was a psychologist who was trying out LSD himself...
...Center could not, nor could any other institution in the world, devise an effective dose that provides man with the gift for human relationship. All that the Center can do in this respect, and what it has been, within its limited resources, successfully doing is to provide positive opportunities for students, foreigners as well as Americans, to use their personal gifts in making friendships and enriching their human relationships...
Along with the will power goes a Spartan regime, which specifies rhythmic breathing, with brisk walks, warm baths, cold rubdowns and a good night's rest. There is also a walloping dose of what sounds like near vegetarianism: a drink of warm water on awakening, only fresh fruit for breakfast (no coffee!), at least three glasses of water or juice during the morning, a sandwich and salad for lunch, more water or juice, and for dinner only light soup, fruit or green salad, with nothing headier than cottage cheese. Liquor is absolutely banned. So are pepper, mustard and other...
...Catholic author (Religion in the Light of Contemporary Science), who built the first device capable of taking multiple X-ray photographs of the human heart beating, and was one of the first to discover radiation's therapeutic value in the treatment of tumors; of radiation poisoning (a toxic dose, which he absorbed in his 20s, continued to poison his body until it finally caused his death); in Frankfurt...