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...surgeons have found that it is often a good idea for every member of a crew on night patrol to carry two five-milligram benzedrine pills, take one if he is mentally exhausted (e.g., in the case of a pilot), two if he is physically exhausted. Men should wait for the exhaustion point before taking benzedrine, because the drug works best if it is taken then. Doses can be repeated, but nobody should take more than 30 milligrams in one week. Sleep postponed by a "benzedrine alert" must be made up later on. To end a benzedrine alert, take...
...human nose is an extraordinarily sensitive organ: it can detect as little as a billionth of a milligram of an aromatic vapor; the tongue needs at least a million times that amount in order to taste...
Several years ago Drs. Steinberg & Brown learned that oxalic acid is present in small quantities in normal blood. In the last three years they have injected standard, three-milligram doses of oxalic acid into the veins of almost 1,000 persons who suffered from excessive bleeding due to such varied conditions as hemophilia, gastric ulcers, childbirth, jaundice and kidney and lung infections. In every case bleeding stopped within five minutes, the normal coagulating time, even though the patients had been bleeding as long as two hours. In many cases bleeding ceased within 45 seconds of injection. Oxalic acid thus appeared...
When concentration of alcohol in the blood is below 0.5 milligram per cubic centimeter (achieved by the highball, Martini or three beers), even the most sensitive drinker displays no ill effects. Above a concentration of 1.5 mgms. every one is drunk. Between these rates lie in dividual variations of sullenness, hilarity, recklessness and melancholy. Hence, Dr. Haggard proposed that police set a stand ard of 0.5 mgm. as the "arbitrary dividing line between sobriety and an appreciable influence of liquor...
...implantation method might easily be used on humans "with minimum inconvenience to the patient," they said. They cited a case of a woman who obtained relief from menopause symptoms after a 14-milligram tablet of estrone (ovarian hormone, known in the U. S. as theelin) was stitched under her skin...