Word: lancet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Striking medical victories scored by British surgeons amid the muck and terror of the recent Allied withdrawal from Flanders were noted in London last week by the authoritative Lancet...
...which have since been used in medicine, though generally in smaller doses than I took. I think I hold the record for the amounts of ammonium, calcium, and strontium chlorides which I have taken." In one essay, "After-effects of Exposure of Men to Carbon Dioxide," he reprints his Lancet article on an experiment he made in connection with the Thetis disaster. This study, as its author points out, has both stylistic and factual interest for the average reader...
...really fond of lice. Last week the Lancet, British medical weekly, put in its two-pennyworth-a diatribe against the louse which rivaled Robert Burns's "ugly, creepin', blastit wonner, detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner...
...vitamin virtues were first reported in the Lancet in January by Dr. Franklin Bicknell of London's Farringdon Dispensary. Last week Neurologist Israel Spanier Wechsler of Mt. Sinai Hospital told a group of noted colleagues that, working independently of Dr. Bicknell, he had cured one man of the supposedly hopeless disease, had got a bedridden woman to walking about her house, had "improved" three other patients...
...Lancet is an excellent weekly medical journal; but it is British. Its lucid medical articles delight U. S. medicos; its self-consciously lighter vein also delights them. Every week since the war began the Lancet has devoted a pasture-page to "our peripatetic correspondents," for gripes, wisecracks, sentimental reflections. Last week a peripatetic correspondent sounded off on British medical society dinners...