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Once extracted, the follicular fluid is rushed to an adjoining laboratory and examined under a microscope to confirm that it contains an egg (the ovum measures only four-thousandths of an inch across). The ova are carefully washed, placed in petri dishes containing a solution of nutrients and then deposited in an incubator for four to eight hours. The husband, meanwhile, has produced a sperm sample. It is hardly a romantic moment, recalls Cleveland Businessman Popela, who made four trips to Cambridgeshire with his wife, each time without success. "You have to take the jar and walk past a group...
Acne has been blamed on overactive glands, eating too much fat, constipation, heredity, iodized salt, infection, nervousness, allergy, frustrated love life, indigestion, picking. Dr. Straumfjord believes that, no matter what else may be wrong with a patient, acne always develops in a skin coarsened by "follicular hyper-keratosis"-i.e., hardening and coarsening of the tiny skin follicles (pores). This condition of the follicles, says he, "differs in no important way from the descriptions of the follicular lesions attributed to vitamin A deficiency"; in fact, he thinks the two conditions are identical...
Relieved when a Kansas City surgeon finished probing through his nose and throat, cutting out follicular tissue about his tonsils, Baritone Nelson Eddy elatedly squealed, "Doc, you're making a soprano out of me," broke into Ol' Man River. Gargled he, dancing a jig and forgetfully swallowing the throat wash: "It may seem ironical that a featured singer on a throat remedy radio program [Vick's] must have his throat attended to. ... I am reluctant to say that I am going to have four notes more range and . . . twice the volume...
...ovarian follicular hormone, as it is called, is not effective when administered by mouth. Dr. Allen was emphatic in asking doctors not to confuse this new substance with glandular extracts now on the market, none of which, he declared, contain the active principle of his material-now in laboratory use only...
...next day's press, Munn announced that he had been sick . . . "temperature of 102," "acute follicular tonsilitis with a touch of bronchitis...