Word: mg
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...amantadine hydrochloride, is virtually the only medicine effective in preventing viral infections. Trade-named Symmetrel, it has been tested on more than 3,000 human subjects, and has shown remarkable effectiveness in protecting against Asian-A influenza. For an adult the effective dose of amantadine is 200 mg. a day, a tiny fraction of an ounce...
...trouble is that a tiny fraction more is dangerous; even a young adult in good condition suffers severe side effects with a dose of only 300-400 mg. The reactions observed among medical students, reports the University of Illinois' Dr. George Gee Jackson, "were predominantly alterations of the emotional state and of cerebration. These students complained of inability to concentrate and depression. Several described sensations of depersonalization and altered body image. There was a remarkable degree of associated anxiety." At doses of 400 mg., nearly every volunteer suffered such effects. Fortunately, the effects subside in a few hours...
...sold in 1959. In the first nine months of 1966, Volkswagen spurted from 277,000 sales to 308,000, while G.M.'s "German Opel climbed from fifth place to second among imports, with sales of 25,000, followed by Sweden's Volvo, Britain's MG and Japan's Datsun. The Japanese cars are rising fast: Toyota is now the second best-selling import in California, where the Japanese are driving hard prior to a nationwide push, and Honda will soon introduce...
...MG--Steve Miller (Eliot...
...regularly introduced through mouth or lung in amounts greater than 1 mg. per day, lead can cause painful constipation, anemia, emaciation, loss of appetite, paralysis of the extremities, and ultimately death. And there is one more effect that interests Dr. Gilfillan most of all: enough lead can cause sterility in men, miscarriages and stillbirths among women. The Romans, says Gilfillan, especially the upper classes, knew little of lead's dangers, and they ingested more than enough of the metal to make trouble a certainty. Not only did Pliny the Elder counsel that "leaden and not bronze pots should...