Word: drip
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...yellowish fluid trickled through a flexible glass tube into a needle inserted in the vein between his elbow and wrist. Proudly the patient grinned at his distinguished guests, flexed his arm. Snapped his nurse: "Don't show off." The apparatus was an ordinary "Murphy drip," long used for glucose feedings...
...With the drip method, said Dr. Harold Thomas Hyman, early syphilis can be cured in five days...
...doctors first tried neoarsphenamine in their Murphy drip, but found it "too dangerous." Mapharsen, which is less toxic, was discarded by Ehrlich because it was too unstable. But modern chemists have "set" the drug...
Closing the door, he stepped into the locker room. He was early, the first one there, and all he could hear was the drip of a shower around the corner. Then he spied Johnny sticking adhesive strips on the locker doors...
...companies began replacing old ice wagons with enameled delivery trucks, streamlined and enclosed. Instead of open collar and rubber backsheet, icemen began to wear natty uniforms and bow ties; to use instead of ice tongs drip-proof canvas carriers; to wipe up water when they accidentally spilled it on the floor, to shun the honest word "icebox" and call it "ice refrigerator...