Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight in The Lancet, Drs. Deanesly & Parkes reported the results of experiments made on the hunch. They anesthetized five immature male guinea pigs, made slits in their skins, pushed a disc-shaped ovarian hormone tablet, weighing from eight to 16 milligrams, into each slit, and stitched up the incision. There was no local reaction but a tight coat of connective tissue began to grow around the tablets. After six months the guinea pigs' male sex organs had atrophied, their rudimentary male mammary glands had become greatly enlarged. The tablets were then removed, dried, weighed. It was found that...
...implantation method might easily be used on humans "with minimum inconvenience to the patient," they said. They cited a case of a woman who obtained relief from menopause symptoms after a 14-milligram tablet of estrone (ovarian hormone, known in the U. S. as theelin) was stitched under her skin...
Coventry, now the home of Daimler Motors, still celebrates with an occasional Lady Godiva ride. A bronze memorial tablet has been set up to the city's benefactor, and before Coventry's King's Head Hotel stands a colored, wooden statue of a bearded, blinded Peeping...
Brooklyn. Last fortnight the Jewish Examiner nominated for "Jew-Baiter No. 1" Dr. Patrick Scanlan, managing editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, Catholic diocesan organ whose letter columns have lately been full of discussions of "Jewish Bolshevism." Dr. Scanlan has particularly incurred Jewish displeasure by recommending that Dr. Albert Einstein be sent back to Germany, "where persecution might again impress him with its heinousness"-because Dr. Einstein joined Princeton professors in an appeal for lifting the arms embargo on Spain...
Commented the Brooklyn Tablet: "We always try to be helpful but sometimes our best efforts are not appreciated...