Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to first expectations, sulfapyridine cannot always be used without serums, for some patients vomit the drug immediately and cannot absorb a sufficient amount in their blood streams. And the preliminary typing of pneumococci for their appropriate serums still takes valuable time in pneumonia cases. But Dr. Perrin Hamilton Long of Johns Hopkins, first physician in the U. S. to test sulfanilamide, is already working with Dr. Eli Kennedy Marshall, who has synthesized a sodium salt of sulfapyridine, which will be injected directly into the veins and may make serums unnecessary...
...Long, narrow Dr. Emerson, a grandnephew of Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, is bland and diplomatic. His chief arguments against compulsory health insurance are: 1) the U. S. needs no planned medical care, for its citizens are in excellent health [despite Government statistics to the contrary]: 2) political appointees would run insurance systems. Doctors, says Dr. Emerson, must stay out of politics...
Physicians have long sought a test which would warn them of the presence of invisible, embryonic cancers. Last week cancer specialists found new hope in a simple cancer test reported in Science by Drs. Theodore Herman Elsasser and George Barclay Wallace of New York University's Medical School...
...dapper, delirious Catalonian placed in one window an old-fashioned bathtub lined with black Persian lamb and filled with water, from which three wax arms arose holding mirrors. Pensive before the tub stood a wax mannequin clothed in green feathers, with long, bright red hair. On the walls, upholstered in purple, small mirrors were fixed here and there, and narcissism was further indicated by narcissuses floating...
...artist made at 23, when he was a German pacifist who had been condemned to death but let off with front-line service on the Western Front. It was a grey and dirt-colored allegory of war which, like the Thirty Years War in Europe (1618-48), lasted so long that men forgot, in disease, starvation and insanity, what they were fighting for. The witlings who stumble to the attack in A Piece of My World do so with forks for bayonets, rats for their baggage train, ruin for their objective...