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...which nerve impulses are interrupted before they get to the muscles, leaving the patient pitifully weak and fatigued. Manhattan's Dr. Kermit E. Osserman reported that experiments with a new drug, pyrido-stigmin, produced partial rehabilitation of nearly half of 45 "moderate and severe cases," proved "definitely less toxic" than other drugs (e.g., neostigmine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Dec. 20, 1954 | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

Among the native Bellykness dancers were B. W. Brain, Francis Morgan, Philip O'Brien, James Oliver, Elbert Osserman, and Frank Williams, while Emil Wold was the cannibal king and his potboiler cook was portrayed by A. H. Rosset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

Another notable office utility first reported last week was an obtundent (desensitizing) paste developed by Manhattan's Drs. Harold Aaron Osserman and Abraham Taub. Like Manhattan's Dr. Leroy L. Hartman's painkiller which attracted attention last year (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936), the new obtundent is supposed to deaden the fibrils of nerves which are supposed to run through the dentine of teeth. Critics of the Hartman and Osser-man-Taub anesthetics pointed out that, 1) it is doubtful that dentine contains nerve tissues, 2) the chemicals do not always work, 3) such news makes patients expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dentists | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

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