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During a scientific career which spanned more than 30 years, Dr. Cohn aided in the development of liver extract for the treatment of pernicious anemia, serum albumin for use in cases of battlefield and accident shock, and several other medically important blood products. His work led directly to the recent discovery of gamma globulin as an immunizing agent against polio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Famed Blood Specialist Dr. Edwin J. Cohn Dies | 10/3/1953 | See Source »

...electrical activity can still remember. He believes that the brain has some "static" method of storing memories. Perhaps changes in the synapses (nerve endings) between the neurons build up a pattern of information. Then, when the brain wants a bit of information, it may "scan" the synapses electrically and extract the knowledge it needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plenty of Problems | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...Jones discovered Freud's writings as a brilliant young practitioner in the safe sun of the Edwardian era. He reacted as though he had found the elixir of life. He mastered German to extract the full flavor of every word, and introduced psychoanalysis to a shocked England. Orthodox physicians (in the Freudian phrase) ventilated their aggressions on the pioneer analysts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sigmund's Jewel | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

Despite this knowledge, dozens of attempts to make and sell commercial meat tenderizers made from papaya had little success, for the simple reason that users could not control the reaction. Most of the tenderizers were liquid solutions of papaya extract. Housewives soaked the meats until they tasted as if they had already been "digested"-which they had. But last week meat tenderizers in powder form were one of the fastest selling items in U.S. stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Old Indian Trick | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...papaya enzyme. Its promoters, two Hollywood ex-servicemen named Lloyd Rigler and Larry Deutsch, first encountered it in a mixture prepared by Adolf Rempp, a Los Angeles steakhouse chef whose steaks were unusually tender. They bought his formula for $10,000, worked out a way to blend the papaya extract with ordinary salt, which could be sprinkled evenly-and in visible amounts -on the meat. Rigler and Deutsch went about the U.S. inviting jaded food editors, who were cynical about all such preparations, to try theirs. In surprise, the editors began writing enthusiastically that "it really worked," made a cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Old Indian Trick | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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