Word: extractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plants; of stomach cancer; in Michurinsk, whither Dictator Stalin had dispatched his best physicians. Ignored by the Tsarist Government but encouraged by Lenin, Michurin was given 20,000 acres, was credited with developing a blend of apple & cherry, a hybrid watermelon-cantaloupe, a lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract (TIME...
...Madam, I can do you no good. Your situation is deplorable. John Bell, Hunter, Hey and A. Wood, four of the first and most eminent surgeons in England and Scotland, have uniformly declared in their lectures that such is the danger of peritoneal inflammation, that opening the abdomen to extract a tumor is inevitable death. Notwithstanding this, if you think yourself prepared to die, I will take the lump from you, if you can come to Danville...
...Merely to replace that imported linseed oil would require 3,000,000 acres devoted to flax, or 750,000 acres of tung groves, calculated Mr. Williamson. He preferred tung trees because forage crops can be grown between the trees. A machine to shell the nuts and a press to extract the oil are all that a tung grower needs to make his crop ready for market...
...Lisser of San Francisco made a stir by showing that a person's lazy insides may be prodded by thyroid treatment. Dr. Lisser's most remarkable patient suffered from ascites (abdominal dropsy); flaccid heart, intestines and bladder; profuse menstrual bleeding; secondary anemia. Iron for the anemia, thyroid extract for the other "capricious vagaries" brought, said Dr. Lisser, "magical relief...
...Afterbirths. Practically all animals, including some primitive women, eat their own afterbirths. The practice apparently is good for the mother and probably, through her milk, for the child. Dr. Charles Fremont McKhann Jr. of Boston gave such placentophagy a new twist and a sound scientific basis by extracting substances from placentas, with which he inoculates children against measles. He also expects to extract sub stance to immunize against scarlet fever, diphtheria, infantile paralysis...