Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the feeling that somewhere among you there must be ine who has yet to hear of our trip to Montreal, the highlights of the aforementioned will now be reviewed in a finale befitting its grandeur, finally she declared, with some emphasizing that if we wanted to be coy it was all right with her and she would save us both time by directing herself and party to our room...
...fantastic poison vaguely connected with South American Indians and detective novels" was Dr. Harold R. Griffith's first idea of curare (rhymes with safari). But in last week's Canadian Medical Association Journal, the Montreal doctor tells how he changed his mind, pioneered the use of curare to relax tense muscles during operations...
...clue to a possible cause of arthritis was given last week in the Journal of the A.M.A. Dr. Hans Selye and coworkers of Montreal have found that rats get the disease if they get an overdose of desoxy-corticosterone acetate, a synthetic adrenal hormone. Dr. Selye concludes that possibly an oversupply of cortin (hormone secreted by the adrenal gland's outer husk) may be to blame for human arthritis. The adrenal glands, he says, may be stimulated by glandular imbalance (e.g., women at the menopause are very likely to get arthritis), exposure to cold, emotional shock, infections...
...capsule is the result of two years of work by Surgeon Captain Charles Herbert Best, codiscoverer of insulin, and Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield, director of the Montreal Neurological Institute. Using a double-ended swinging machine designed to make even sailors seasick (TIME, July 19), they first tested 60 antiseasickness compounds, found two which had a slight effect separately, a better effect together. They added another compound that was their own idea, colored the mixture pink for the psychological effect, put the stuff up in capsules to be taken every eight hours until sea legs are attained...
...seasoned Dolph Camilli, Buck Newsom, Joe Medwick, Johnny Allen. When he was through pruning, only 14 of the 34 spring players remained. With few exceptions, other clubs could find no new material worth buying. In St. Paul, Rickey found 6 ft. 6½ in. First Baseman Howard Schultz; in Montreal, Outfielder Luis Olmo; in Durham, Outfielder Gene Hermanski. He brought in other youngsters. He asked 20,000 school and semi-pro coaches to name their best players, so far has seen 3,700 of them at 15 try-out camps (estimated cost...