Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assurance. Last week, after a six-month study of the evidence, the 18-man Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association published a cautious verdict on BCG. The report conceded that the vaccine, properly administered, is harmless, and probably desirable among nurses, doctors, laboratory workers, members of families where tuberculosis is present. But, the report warned, "undue reliance must not be placed on the vaccine as a protective measure at the expense of established measures of control...
...alpha particle effect on fluorescent screens, and prospect for radio-active deposits on the way to school. Parents are assured that success in this venture may lead to a $10,000 reward, that very similar Geiger Counters cost many hundreds of dollars, and that the "toy" is as harmless as a new puppy...
Aureomycin attacks some virus-like organisms, and some common colds are caused by a virus. So, in a rigidly controlled test, the medical staff of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point tried the golden antibiotic on 154 cadets with colds. At the same time, they gave harmless yellow capsules to 155 other grey-uniformed snifflers. In the New England Journal of Medicine the medics had to admit defeat: aureomycin is just one more thing that doesn't cure a cold...
...have had riotry among the upperclassmen in many different forms over the years. It has always been healthfully vigozous, but sometimes not quite harmless, as when one student died from injuries in the cane rush a great many years...
...said one citizen, "he's just another squirrel in the Forest Theater. Why don't they leave him alone?" That is what the council decided last week to do. "Why," said the mayor's wife in retrospect, "Duxbury was just one of those harmless souls who's neither a Democrat nor a Republican...