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Word: iodophthalein (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Usage:

Year ago, the doctors discovered that a young nurse in the hospital was a carrier. Sulfanilamide and other standard drugs did no good; they tried giving her iodophthalein, a dye used to show up the gall bladder in X-ray pictures. Next day the germs had vanished. They have not been heard from since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cure for Typhoid Carriers? | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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