Word: novocain
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...wife, Empress Eugenie. Soon researchers, using Hoechst dyes, learned that they could stain living and dead tissue to study the origin and spread of diseases. Famed Microbiologist Robert Koch used Hoechst dyes to discover the organisms causing anthrax and tuberculosis. Over the years, Hoechst scientists developed Novocain, the first effective local anesthetic, produced Adrenalin, the first synthetic hormone, and opened the way for the company's huge expansion into plastics by discovering how to produce polyvinyl. In 1925 Hoechst joined the other giant German chemical companies in the I. G. Farben combine. After the war, when the Allies broke...
...give Russia the atomic bomb, accused the U.S. of germ warfare in Korea. "Communism," he preached, "is doing something. It is following Christ's standards." He even attributes his vigorous health to the Reds; he and his wife inject themselves with a mysterious, Rumanian-developed novocain serum called H3. Anglican churchmen have long squirmed over the Red Dean's antics, but Dr. Johnson has at last done something to gladden their hearts. Saying that he wants to travel and finish his autobiography, he turned in his resignation (as of next May) to the Queen...
...Kremlin is beginning to lose his bounce. He is overweight (5 ft. 5 in., almost 200 lbs.) has high blood pressure and a heart condition. According to one rumor, he is receiving injections of water and procaine (better known by the trade name Novocain), a dubious treatment devised by a Rumanian woman doctor to retard the aging process. He has limited his partygoing, restricted his diet, cut out hard liquor. Nowadays, says Khrushchev, wagging a finger at First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. 66, "he is the drinker, while I am the talker...
...Only in three cases has he felt it necessary to remove both carotid bodies. That the glomus is a respiratory control center is suggested by the fact that some patients feel relief the instant.the body is removed, or even earlier, when it is inactivated by an injection of procaine (Novocain). More than 75% of all patients get some relief, reports Dr. Overholt; and in 50% or more, the relief is significant and sometimes dramatic. All his patients have been asthmatics for whom no other treatment, from portable respirators to electric shock, was effective. Most important, whereas previous nerve surgery...
Despite his pain, Mister Sam remained indomitable. After weeks of back twinges, he was finally prevailed upon to consult White House Physician Janet Travell, who administered Novocain to comfort him. When the treatment was over, Rayburn arose to put his trousers back on. Dr. Travell noticed that he was wobbling first on one foot, then on the other. She suggested that he sit down to finish dressing. Cried Sam Rayburn: "I am 79 years old, and no woman is going to tell me how to put on my pants...