Word: mg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though its 25,000-car annual turnout is dwarfed by the 890,000 cars produced under British Motors' five current makes (Austin, Morris, MG, Riley and Wolseley), Jaguar will give B.M.C. needed strength in the luxury market. To make the most of its new ability to sell to every pocketbook, British Motors plans to increase overall output by 1970 to 1,500,000, about what Germany's Volkswagen, the present European leader, already produces...
Another driver was injured when his car piled into the wall; Bob Veith narrowly escaped a barbecue when his MG Special blossomed into flame at 175 m.p.h. Everybody's target was A. J. Foyt's 1965 record qualifying average of 161.2 m.p.h. And before the week was over, seven drivers had beaten...
Back to Quinine. Medically, the most disturbing aspect of malaria in Viet Nam is the appearance of falciparum parasites that are resistant to chloroquine, which was hailed only a few years ago as the almost perfect antimalarial drug. U.S. servicemen take a weekly prophylactic tablet containing 300 mg. of chloroquine and 45 mg. of another antimalarial known as primaquine. If they develop malaria despite this, they are likely to be infected by a resistant strain of parasites. If massive doses of chloroquine fail to bring the fever down within a few hours, the medics may switch to pyrimethamine (Daraprim), which...
...happy accident occurred, said Dr. C. Thomas Flotte (pronounced Float), while he was treating a patient with a clot in one of the renal veins. Dr. Flotte took a presurgery blood sample, and the laboratory reported a cholesterol level of about 400 mg., or double the normal. During the operation, the patient received a pint of dextran, both to maintain his blood volume and to reduce clotting. Then he got a pint a day for two days. Dr. Flotte sent a fresh blood sample to the lab and got back a cholesterol reading of 150 mg...
...startled surgeon decided to run a further check on dextran's anti-cholesterol activity. It worked so well in rabbits that for 21 years he has been giving the drug by intravenous injection to surgery patients who happen to have cholesterol levels in the abnormal range of 300 mg. to 600 mg. After an infusion of a pint a day for three days, the level of cholesterol and other fats in their blood drops back to normal, and can be kept there with infusions of a pint every month. Although Dr. Flotte has no idea how dextran works...