Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military occupation of China, I believe our major task is about completed.* It is probable that we will not maintain a very large army there. Normal trade will be resumed as soon as the military operations . . . are concluded...
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...
...successful application of X-rays in the treatment of cancer will be materially increased. For, at present, good results cannot be obtained in many cases because the tumor is so insensitive to X-rays that the large dose required to kill it will cause too much damage in adjoining normal tissue...
Louis' gluttony was gargantuan: Author Padover calls it "glandular." A "normal" meal for him would consist of four cutlets, a fat chicken, six eggs, a slice of ham. Sometimes he gorged himself insensible, would then mutter remorseful words of "slop-pail grossness." At decisive moments he was often too gorged...
...first year has now ended. Behind the walls of the much renovated Big Tree Swimming Pool are masses of facts and figures on almost every phase of life of some 80 normal boys. A thorough medical examination, registration of metabolism and fatigue tests, an anthropological examination,--all these were part of the survey of the physical side. On the mental side, investigations of the boy's genealogy and of his home, religious, sex, and academic life were correlated to produce a fairly accurate, if somewhat superficial, knowledge of his mental make-up. Results and conclusions of the survey will...