Word: spleening
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...Spleen Serum. The serum is extracted from the blood of horses which have been injected with spleen cells and bone marrow from young, healthy persons who have died by accident. "It is not an elixir of long life," insisted Bogomolets last week, "but something that fights the enemies of longer life-cancer and high blood pressure." (It is too potent for some people, and Dr. Bogomolets himself is one of those who cannot be treated: his heart is too weak for an ACS fillip...
...decided to try the experiment on humans, using Skelton's principle of large, concentrated doses of the vitamin. A friend, Dr. Arthur Berge Francis Vogelsang, had just the man: a 68-year-old pensioner who was dying of hypertensive heart disease and hemorrhages, was due to have his spleen removed the next day. The attending surgeon was willing to try the vitamin, since he was afraid the patient would die on the operating table. Within a week after treatment the old man was out of bed, bustling around the hospital ward and helping nurses with the dinner trays...
California Democrats had been cautioned by Attorney General Bob Kenny to treat each other with "mutual respect" in the June 4 primaries and save their spleen for Republicans in the fall. But last week both disrespect and discord cropped up. Most of the Democratic regulars were backing ex-Congressman Will Rogers Jr. for Senator. The rugged radicals of the Hollywood Independent Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions, of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and left-of-center A.F.L. unions were spending and electioneering hard for Congressman Ellis Patterson, who has often shown an agile adherence to the Communist line...
Grace Moore's recent spleen on faithless wives of overseas servicemen [TiME, Aug. 6] just barely deserves the dignity of a reply. Nothing is so pitiful as a woman maligning her own sex, and at a time when womanhood should stand together for protection from those who think in little clich...
...sneezing powder which releases the pressure pain from the stomach. The theory is the same as lifting the lid of a spouting tea kettle to release steam. After Western laxatives had failed to relieve a certain Cabinet member, Dr. Chang prescribed a herb to "heat the vapor of the spleen." The statesman was cured overnight...