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Word: selesnick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1935-1935
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Usage:

...else, hence get little active treatment. But an occasional alcoholic may be so thoroughly saturated that he will sink from deep coma into paralysis and death. Taking an interest in such deplorable guzzlers, last year two internes at Boston's City Hospital, Drs. Leon J. Robinson and Sydney Selesnick, began experimenting on specimens in their hospital's alcoholic ward. Their aim was to develop a gas which would oxidize alcohol in the blood, help throw it off in the breath, restore the patient to a normal state of intoxication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gas for Drunks | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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