Word: lancet
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...that drew no distinction between major and minor arts. Anything from a horse bit to a box top was seen as an object of beauty, while each bronze affirmed in subtle ways the flavor of its region. Where Sparta reigned, simplicity and self-discipline are powerfully reflected in the lancet-eyed Laconian warrior whose body and thoughts alike are swathed in a foreboding cloak...
...findings reported in the Lancet by three research groups go far to ex plain another mystery of penicillin -why it is so much less likely to cause severe reactions when taken by mouth than when injected. It seems that much of the protein impurity is destroyed - digested, in effect - in the alimentary tract before it can get into the bloodstream...
Then Dr. Laurence F. Prescott, who was doing clinical investigation at Johns Hopkins University, tested four ingredients in widely used analgesics, alone and in combination. He reported in The Lancet that healthy volunteers who took ten aspirin tablets a day began to excrete damaged kidney cells, reflecting at least temporary kidney injury. Surprisingly, this effect was less marked with APCs. It was also less conspicuous when he tested phenacetin alone, and still less so with medicinal caffeine...
...British research team reports in the Lancet that the cause of this baffling disease may be a new kind of organism that fits no known classification. Whatever its nature, it appears to live and multiply only as long as the heart itself is living; it vanishes from dead heart tissue. This would explain why it has not been found in postmortem examinations, even when these are performed soon after death...
...Apostles appear garbed in ordinary robes, looking toward the missing figure of God. The significance lies in the stark mortality of Matthew, Peter, Paul and John, portrayed like any common men before the terror of God. The 13th century Gothic period was more orderly than awestruck. A stained-glass lancet window shows Christ's passion in five panels set in an interlace of jewel-like embroidery. Christ ascends toward heaven by vignettes-from betrayal, to entombment. Later, as the terror of the apocalypse grew wearying, the Virgin Mary became more prominent. The Christ Child's figure became relatively...