Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dr. Conn's technique is conventional: he gets the patient to look at a spot on the wall and concentrate upon a pleasant scene of his own choosing. As his hypnotic state deepens under the doctor's suggestions, pain subsides-provided he is not one of those patients...
The facts: diethylstilbestrol (stilbestrol for short) is a synthetic of the same chemical family as the female sex hormones (estrogens). Physicians prescribe it for some women whose systems need more estrogens, for some men with prostatic cancer. Back in 1947, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration authorized poultry farmers to use...
It took until 1957 for the FDA to figure out by increasingly sensitive tests, that there is a minute residue of stilbestrol in other parts of caponettes than the head -20 to 30 parts per billion in the liver and 35 to 100 in the skin fat.
An average caponette weighs 2,500 gm. (about 5½ Ibs.). So, by the FDA's top-hazard figures, a roast-caponette fancier would get only a minute fraction of a milligram of stilbestrol if he ate all the skin fat and liver. Medical doses of stilbestrol for human...
The play nicely balances its blunderer from an age of chivalry against the more practical citizenry of an age of compromise. It is an altogether Anouilhan balance, in that it finds much to be said against both sides. But where Anouilh, a worldly observer with both heart and spleen, shows...