Word: extract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laboratory so that they could be applied to human wounds to accelerate healing. At first the biodynes were created by exposing tissues from rat and chicken embryos to ultraviolet rays. This injured some of the cells and induced production of the healing substances in them. The scientists now extract the biodynes from 1) fish-liver oils and 2) heated yeast cells. The extracts are mixed with a petrolatum and lanolin base, sell for $3 a pound. Dr. Sperti said last week he could produce 1,000 pounds of "Biodyne" ointment a day if he had a priority for fish oils...
...days' observation usually uncovers high blood pressure induced by benzedrine sulfate, low blood pressure induced by thyroid extract and other drug-induced disorders. In 1918 an A.E.F. hospital had an entire ward full of sufferers from a mysterious, persistent diarrhea. An observer camouflaged as another patient discovered that all the diarrhetics were bribing a night orderly to steal purgatives for them...
Dolicocephalic aborigines are becoming rather rare in many hill regions of the Tapalog Island. Famed for their pomegranate trees and the extract of pome-rang juice which is the main staple of the race, they are herb-carnivorous bipeds...
Effective treatment for celiaca is skimmed lactic-acid milk and plenty of ripe bananas, and injections of pancreatic extract. But thanks to submarines, the U.S. has few bananas, and without fresh or powdered bananas celiacous children may develop the disease all over again, losing, in a few days, all the weight they have gained over a period of months...
Next to closed tubes, the most common cause of infertility is infection of the cervix. This can usually be cleared up by good medical care. Sometimes doses of thyroid extract are needed to stimulate the ovaries. Treatment with ovarian hormones (estrogen and progestin), says the doctor, plays "no significant part in the treatment of sterility." Of course, if both ovaries have been mutilated or removed, a woman is permanently barren...