Word: extract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Riddle's pigeons laid golden eggs, all yolk with neither shell nor white, because he removed their thymus glands. Dr. Rowntree's husky baby rats played precociously because he stimulated their thymus glands with sweetbread extract. Then Dr. Riddle turned another neat trick by giving sweetbread extract to his thymectomized pigeons, which promptly began to lay normal, shell eggs...
...after being quite dead-heart stopped, breath stopped, eyes glazed-for four minutes on Friday, April 13, Dog No. 3 had been brought back to live day after day. This apparent miracle had been worked by means of a rocking board and injections of oxygen-saturated saline solution, liver extract, canine blood, adrenalin, gum-arabic...
...terriers with ether and nitrogen, brought them back to life (TIME, March 26). One dog lived a comatose life of eight hours, the other five hours. Last fortnight Dr. Cornish killed a third terrier. For dog No. 3, in addition to the oxygen-saturated saline solution, liver extract, adrenalin, canine blood and rocking board with which he resurrected Nos. 1 & 2, Dr. Cornish had a new help-gum-arabic, to keep the heart from overworking. Revived, the third dog clung to life day after day. Though unconscious, it blinked and stretched when a window-blind was raised, swallowed when food...
...with widely varying formulas, but the facts about them are simple. Prime fact is that all are either harmful, worthless or both. Most are simply laxatives, for it is possible to reduce weight by hurrying food through the system before it can be properly digested. Some compounds contain thyroid extract which, by speeding metabolism, does reduce weight but with much possible harm...
...elapsed since the last heartbeat, sallow young Dr. Robert E. Cornish moved Lazarus II to a seesaw-like device called a teeterboard. There he opened one of the terrier's thigh veins to admit a saline solution saturated with oxygen and containing the heart stimulant adrenalin, the liver extract heparin and some canine blood from which the fibrin (coagulating substance) had been removed. While he breathed gustily into the dog's mouth, his assistant rubbed the kinky-haired little body, rocked it on the teeterboard. The stimulant solution sank in a glass gauge as it seeped into...