Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hormones (progesterone derivatives), which might interfere with the test, by mixing in chloroform and sodium hydroxide. The fluid containing estrone rises to the top. This fluid is put in two other test tubes and a different chemical reagent added to each, for a double check. If the patient is pregnant, one reagent turns the solution dark brown; the other makes it reddish purple.* With both reagents, it becomes amber if she is not pregnant...
...Richardson has tried his test 1,000 times. At first, before he perfected the technique, there were a few "false positive" errors. In a later series of 467 tests (235 pregnant, 232 not), there were no errors. Any competent pathologist, he says, can make the test as soon as he has the two reagents handy. Dr. Richardson will not tell what they are until he publishes his report in a medical magazine. His reason: he does not want some one pharmaceutical house stealing a march and rushing out with a kit to get rich quick on his quick test...
Substance X. In 1929 Dr. Hench noticed that men & women with arthritis suffered less pain when they had jaundice. Women suffered less when they were pregnant. He noticed too that patients who had surgical operations got better for a while (during an operation, the adrenal cortex, or outer layer of the adrenal gland, is stimulated...
...also notes one dean's reply to attempts to differentiate "joint instruction" and co-education. "That is exactly like saying a girl is just a little bit pregnant. You've either got co-education or you haven't. And whether we like...
...distribution of wealth in this country is far from equable or general, but it is wider than anywhere else on earth. The distribution, more than the accumulation [of wealth], irks the Soviet leaders, because it underlines the pregnant fact that there is no communism in the Marxist sense in the Soviet Union, and no capitalism in the U.S. as it was conceived in Das Kapital...