Word: drs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis last week, Drs. Charles Belting, Maury Massler and Isaac Shour told the American Dental Association that at the age of 45. one out of every two men will have lost all his teeth or will be suffering from a disease of the gums or jawbone. For the toothless unfortunates, Dentists Stanley ]. Behrman and George F. Egan described a new method of locking false teeth in place with magnets. Protected by plastic and tantalum mesh, the magnets are imbedded in the jawbone and lock tight against similar magnets built into the denture...
...When Drs. Eli Robins and Mandel E. Cohen and the late Dr. James J. Purtell began their study, they thought it would be easy to find patients because their colleagues spoke of there being a few hysterical men in every hospital. This, it soon developed, was not so. The "hysterical" men actually had diseases ranging from epilepsy to cancer and poliomyelitis. In fact, for a long time the three researchers could find no men in a civilian hospital whose illness fitted the definition of hysteria. So they turned to military and veterans' hospitals...
...Drs. Robins and Cohen do not present their findings as final. Rather, they urge that data on "hysterical" men be kept separate from that on hysterical women. And if any physician finds a genuine case of old-fashioned hysteria in a man, they want to know about...
Rattlesnakes, and such venomous relatives as copperheads and water moccasins, have in their heads two small organs called "pits." Scientists have long known that the pits are sense organs which respond to heat, but they did not understand clearly how they work. In last week's Science, Drs. Theodore H. Bullock and Raymond B. Cowles of the University of California, Los Angeles, told how they hooked up a rattlesnake's pits and studied their actions as if they were microphones...
...nearby air had no effect. Warm objects could be detected by the pit organ even through the cold air of a refrigerated room. But when a sheet of glass, opaque to long infra-red rays, was placed between the snake and a warm object, it "blinded" the pit. Drs. Bullock and Cowles conclude that the pit is a sort of "heat eye," sensitive to the infra-red rays that come from warm objects. It detects cold objects by giving less response than it does to the snake's room-temperature surroundings. A glass of water only one degree above...