Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many different types of cells into the amnion ("bag of waters") in which they are carried. After the seventh month, a girl baby sloughs off distinctive cells like those from the genitalia of an adult woman. By puncturing the bag of waters late in pregnancy, draining off a little fluid, and staining the cells, the sex of 25 babies was foretold with accuracy at the University of Brussels' Laboratory for Experimental Gynecology...
Less Brine. Like Dr. Henry A. Schroeder (then at the Rockefeller Institute), with whom he corresponded, Dr. Schemm was soon sure that he was on the right track. The nub of his idea was that dropsy victims were not waterlogged, but brine-logged. Edema fluid, said he, is no more fit for the body to use than sea water. Excess sodium in the body, usually in the form of its chloride (common salt), takes large amounts of water to keep it in solution. Often its demands are so great that a dropsy victim is simultaneously suffering from a shortage...
With battle lines still fluid, Admiral of the Fleet Douglas M. Focastle led both opposing forces in a recruiting drive for camp-followers. An S.O.S. was sent out to replenish fuel supplies. Tank reinforcements failed to arrive, but S.O.S. returned with several small kegs...
...portraits and genre paintings (which looked rather like illustrations for Emile Zola) won Munch a government grant to study in Paris for three years. There he learned to paint sunlight almost as eloquently as the impressionist Pissarro, and to handle line and color with something like Gauguin's fluid grace. When he decided to forget the fashionable philosophy of art for art's sake and paint "living beings" instead, Munch was as well equipped for the job as any artist in Europe...
...basic technique was worked out at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research by a team including famed Microbiologist René J. Dubos and Dr. Gardner Middlebrook. Between 5 and 7 cc of blood (less than two teaspoons) are drawn from an arm vein. The serum (amber fluid) is separated from the cells and added to a specially treated preparation containing the red cells of sheep's blood. The mixture is kept at blood heat for two hours and then left at room temperature overnight...