Word: normalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They discovered that below-normal concentration of zinc in the blood of cirrhosis patients was coupled with excessive excretion of zinc in the urine. This, in turn, seriously depleted the body's stores of the trace metal...
...comparing 19 normal "controls" with ten patients afflicted with the disease, the group discovered that an increase of zinc in the urine indicated the severity of the case. Cirrhosis is one of the ten most common fatal diseases...
Progoff quotes Freud as admitting that "certain practices of mystics may succeed in upsetting the normal relations between the different regions of the mind," so that the senses are "able to grasp relations in the deeper layers of the ego and the id." In his own analysis, Progoff regards the process described in The Cloud of Unknowing as a drawing back of all "attachments or projections, whether they are valid or false," which leads to "a deliberate attrition of consciousness." In turn, this results in a greatly increased activity of the unconscious. At this point the individual begins...
...impecunious orthodontist, Lopez Mateos was born in Atizapán de Zaragoza in Mexico state. While getting his law degree at night school, he worked his way teaching history and literature at a normal school. He started in politics in 1929 as a Socialist, switched easily to the government party when its chief offered to make him his secretary. He rose to Senator in 1946, managed Ruiz Cortines' campaign for the presidency...
...separation processes ending with centrifugation at 40,000 r.p.m. for 75 minutes, he got a protein-free pineal extract. When he gave it in daily injections to schizophrenics, their symptoms became less severe and their body chemistry, usually marked by a defect in sugar metabolism, edged back toward normal. After injections were stopped, the biochemical improvement lasted about a week, and the mental improvement about ten days longer. On repeated courses of injections, the patients got better and better. Says Dr. Altschule: "We have not yet reached the plateau at which improvement has leveled...