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...women in the over-50 age group have some degree of hypertension, and hundreds of thousands of them are being medically treated for the condition. Most of these patients take a small daily dose of reserpine or a related alkaloid, both extracted from the roots of the Indian shrub, Rauwolfia serpentina. The rauwolfia products have been in use for 20 years, have generally been well tolerated in the dosage used by patients, and are inexpensive compared with newer medications for lowering blood pressure, such as guanethidine and methyldopa. The Boston team listed six products containing reserpine, usually in combination with...
...bulldozer presently working on the site will halt corner-cutting strollers by digging up Matthews' two walks and the Yard's double diagonal paths, in favor of a single diagonal path from the Matthews-Mass Hall corner to the middle of Straus Hall. The path then will join a shrub-lined terrace in front of Straus Hall and will extend to the nearby Harvard Square entrance...
Well, no great mystery; the caprifole stanza continues botanically: "Downward a leaf inclines its tip/ and drops from its tip a pearl." It is clear that Nabokov is describing a rain-wet shrub, but has his own good reasons for leaving indefinite precisely which shrub. It is as if he had written of a cavalryman saddling his ungulate (horse? cow? moose?) and riding away...
...Waltham field is also a challenge to visiting teams. When the captains meet at home plate, Pete Bernhard and Varney will listen to Brandies co-captain Bob O'Brien explain. "Now for the left field out-of-bounds, picture an imaginary line from here to that red shrub, then an imaginary line to that lamp post, then...
Grub felt perfectly secure as long as he was living in the jungle, but he wonders if wild beasts may not be lurking in his grandmother's English garden. "Is it safe for me here?" he asks. Prudently, he retrieves his ball from under a shrub only after thumping the bush with a big stick to scare off snakes...