Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...animals, rusty nails and tools. The germs usually enter a dirty wound (sometimes only a pinprick) and incubate for more than a week, producing a poison hundreds of times more virulent than strychnine. A victim of tetanus first complains of stiff neck, then tight jaws, in a mild case muscular spasms in the region of his wound. Sometimes his mouth becomes drawn in a sardonic grin, and finally he writhes in painful, uncontrollable muscular paroxysms, sometimes rocking on his head and heels. Spasms may be so severe that his stout abdominal muscle is ripped...
...causes the first stage of the disease must be different from the poison which causes the second fatal stage. To test his hunch he injected both small and large amounts of tetanus toxin directly into the spinal cords of more than 60 dogs. The injections were always followed by muscular paroxysms and death, even though 100 times the neutralizing dose of antitoxin was in the bloodstream and even though some doses of the poison were not large enough to cause death when injected into the veins...
...Fast music increases metabolism and muscular energy, steps up the heartbeat, sends a rush of blood to the brain, elevates blood pressure. Slow, sentimental music produces opposite effects. Most stimulating are the swift tongue twisters of Gilbert & Sullivan. Most soothing: Kreisler's Old Refrain...
...mixed testosterone propionate (synthetic male hormone) into a bland ointment, gave two patients tubes of the ointment, asked them to squeeze out an inch (containing about 20 milligrams of hormone) and massage it into their thighs and abdomens every night. Within a month the flabby men grew hairier, more muscular, even "pugnacious." When they used the cream faithfully they were able to practice normal sexual relations. A third patient, a boy of 18 whose voice had not yet changed, rubbed the ointment into the skin over his Adam's apple twice daily for a month until "his voice became...
Twitted about his age, lusty, muscular Moriz Rosenthal replies: "A man is young if a lady can make him happy or unhappy. He enters middle age when a lady can make him happy, but no longer unhappy. He is old and gone if a lady can make him neither happy nor unhappy. Well, I am still a young...