Word: epi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nicknamed "EAP" (epi-allo-pregnanolone), the hormone was extracted from pregnancy urine, one-third of an ounce from 10,000 gallons. After its structure was determined, it was easily synthesized from cholesterol, parent substance of other sex hormones. EAP differs from progesterone, a female hormone, only in having four fewer hydrogen atoms. It was administered to a man who had been impotent all his life. After ten days he became potent, and his "condition of ecstasy" lasted three days...
...published last September in Boulogne, he tries to express his idea of the city of the future in some 400 confused pages jammed with maps, plans, cartoons, old engravings, photographs. Slower minds could make little of it beyond the fact that he has not yet lost his skill in epi-grammatics. Excerpts...
...Surgeon-General Hugh Smith Gumming to St. Louis, and for him to order twelve more of his U. S. Public-Health Service experts to join the three already there. It made him decide to ask President Roosevelt for $25,000 from the $400,000 Federal fund for combating epi- demics. In the laboratories of Washington and St. Louis Universities medical scientists worked desperately to find the disease's cause, carrier, cure...
...hawk and the mighty He with his thunderstick all take turns at the Fifteen Rabbits, a group which, like the Forty-Nine Bottles, solemnly and inevitably diminishes. Hops and his affinity Plana, both first appearing as babes, enjoy lucky escapes, but little Epi, their companion, is seized by some young Hes and Shes and dies in captivity, piteously. The remaining ones cavort and chatter, their ears droop and rise, their whiskers twitch, and they meet various fates. Later appears Iago, an embittered dog who tried to go native but found he had no talent for it. He inadvertently assists Hops...