Word: justina
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...pennies to Leander's family and moves with haughty assurance from painting to the piano to whatnot, casually giving them up in turn and winding up in her old age as a Red Sox fan. But not even Honora can stay in the same league with old Cousin Justina, who is richer still (she married a five-and-dime prince) and dominates the lives of a little circle of pathetic hangers-on who are dependent upon her charity. When she discovers that Leander's son Moses is making nightly trips across the roof of the huge house...
...Bacteriologist Justina Hamilton Hill, 47, though no doctor, is the chief woman working in urology in the U. S. Miss Hill makes all the bacterial tests in the Brady ("Diamond Jim") Urological Institute of Johns Hopkins, is now trying to find out how sulfanilamide works. She recently published a popular book on bacteriology (Germs and the Man). Hearty, exuberant Justina Hill is one of the most colorful of U. S. medical women...
With such blunt negations, Justina Hamilton Hill, who for many years has studied the values of antiseptics submitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital, answered the public query of what antiseptic is best to use. Miss Hill's full analysis appeared in last week's American Medical Association Journal. Quieting suspicions of mercurochrome's usefulness, she declared that a 2% tincture of mercurochrome stops the growth of germs on the human skin better than a 7% tincture of iodine...