Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simpson, plump, blue-eyed, precocious, moved to Indianapolis with her parents three years ago and joined the sophomore class of a private school for girls. Daughter of a cleaning-fluid manufacturer, she had got her elementary schooling in Plainfield...
...that reason, and because of new experiments with synthetic radioactive substances in solution, doctors would like to have a good method of injecting liquids. Hypodermic needles have not been entirely satisfactory. Dr. Gioacchino Failla, physicist of New York City's Memorial Hospital, announced a new method of getting fluids into cancers located near the body surface. The fluid is shot in a tiny, powerful jet from a diamond (to prevent rapid wearing away) orifice two-thousandths of an inch in diameter, at a pressure of 15,000 lb. per sq. in. Such a jet penetrates the skin, enters...
...Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital last week, a crowd of doctors from all over the eastern U. S. stared fixedly at a glass jar suspended above a patient's bed. The patient had syphilis. From the bottom of the jar, a yellowish fluid trickled through a flexible glass tube into a needle inserted in the vein between his elbow and wrist. Proudly the patient grinned at his distinguished guests, flexed his arm. Snapped his nurse: "Don't show off." The apparatus was an ordinary "Murphy drip," long used for glucose feedings...
...ordinary fluid, but a sugary solution of mapharsen, one of the earlier of the 950-odd arsenic compounds invented by Paul Ehrlich. While the drug gently seeped into the patient's veins (two drops every three seconds), young Dr. William Leifer explained to the visitors one of the most remarkable advances in the treatment of syphilis since Chemist Ehrlich discovered arsphenamine...
General Motors and Standard Oil of New Jersey jointly control Ethyl Gasoline Corp. Ethyl Gas owns patents on a fluid-chief components are tetraethyl lead and ethylene dibromide-which reduces knocking in automobiles...