Word: hunching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several years ago, they had a hunch that the immature hearts and blood vessels of epileptics did not supply enough oxygen to their brains. Hence the convulsions. This theory fitted in with the general fact that many epileptics do not have any brain abnormalities which might be considered responsible for the seizures. To test their hunch, the doctors placed 14 epileptic children under the care of a coach, who helped them develop "athlete's heart" through a strenuous program of rowing, running, basketball, football. At the same time the patients were placed on the traditional low-water diet...
...National Academy of Sciences (see p. 65), Dr. Henry Borsook and associates* of the California Institute of Technology offered new hope to neural gia sufferers. The scientists knew that vitamin B 1 (anti-beriberi), which is found in yeast and fresh red meats, prevents nerve deterioration. On a hunch, they injected from ten to 100 mgm. of pure, synthetic vitamin B 1 directly into the veins of persons suffering from Tic Douloureux. The injection was repeated every day for six days a week. To the scientists' surprise, after several months of treatment 42 out of 52 patients became practically...
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Last fortnight, on a hunch, an unnamed physician at General Hospital tried a simple kindergarten game on Mrs. Gregory. He knotted the end of a fine steel wire, gently pushed it down her throat into her stomach. On the wire he threaded a tiny steel bead, no larger than a grain of wheat, which he propelled down Mrs. Gregory's throat with a small steel spring. The next bead was a little larger. After half a dozen graduated beads had gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled...
Several months ago, Physiologist George Burrill Ray of Brooklyn's Long Island College of Medicine had a hunch that large quantities of a food rich in glycine might do the trick. Last week he announced the remarkable results of experiments with ordinary gelatin, which is 25% glycine...