Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without waking to jot down some idea that has popped into his mind, Kahn developed a test for syphilis that largely replaced the cumbersome Wassermann, in 1951 published a theory that could be a major step toward the early detection of disease. His "universal blood reaction" theory: a healthy person's system produces antibodies in a definite, ascertainable pattern. In a sick person antibodies form faster and in different patterns. If science can determine how the pattern changes from health to various diseases, doctors will be able to identify the disease long before recognizable symptoms appear...
...nature of modern society and the group process that they would scratch out the gains of suburbia and start all over again in a comfortable model closer to their hearts' desire. But after all, the patient who is cured by group therapy may be healthier than the person who doesn't respond to individual treatment...
...lion's head, a serpent's tail and often an extra head in the middle of its back. To the botanist, it means a plant combining growths of differing genetic makeup-usually the result of grafting. Now British medical scientists are discovering human chimeras, in which one person has some of the body cells of another, invariably a twin...
...longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting"), "The Prof" devised a paper solution to the problem of tailspin during World War I, learned to fly in three weeks, triumphantly tested his theory in person. Summoned by Churchill early in World War II ("He could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain to me in lucid, homely terms what the issues were"), he had a hand in the balloon barrage, setting up the radar screen, and counter-measures for magnetic mines...
...cure is as much a treat as a treatment. From their beginnings they have resolutely tried to drown their ills-real or borrowed-in the country's 2,500 springs that are laced with such life-giving elements as arsenic, sulphur, carbon, magnesium and uranium. "More than one person sang the praises of wine," wrote French Poet Paul Valery. "I love water...