Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view was a vast cross section of the Church's journals, copies of everything from the Dubuque Catholic Daily Tribune to the weeklies America and Commonweal, intellectual high for the Catholic press, and the Paulist Fathers' monthly Catholic World. Most professional-looking was the weekly Brooklyn Tablet, whose front page is not unlike that of the New York Times. Oddest was the Catholic Worker, whose editors style themselves "Radicals of the Right," call on employers to recognize workers "not as wage slaves, but as brothers of Christ, members of the Mystical Body...
...Colston's gonorrheal patients have simply swallowed one tablet of Prontylin four times a day for four days. That course cured 85% of them. At least, no microscope or test tube revealed any residue of the disease. Why the other 15% did not respond to the drug is a typical medical problem which may take years to solve...
Swallowed as a tablet or inhaled as a gas, Benzedrine at first shrinks mucous membranes, raises blood pressure, quickens the heart, sharpens the wits. These effects are powerful enough to snap a schizophrenic out of his murky mentality (TIME, Sept. 14). Small doses of the drug maintain his intelligence. Overdoses, such as uninformed college students seem to be using, bring on dangerous after effects...
Blakeslee, director of the Carnegie Institution's station for experimental evolution on Long Island, produced 45 tablets of mannose, a sugar which is extracted from manna, a mildly cathartic gum secreted by certain Oriental trees. Mannose is notable for the wide variety of taste reactions which it causes. Dr. Blakeslee gave one tablet to each of the 45 members of the American Philosophical Society assembled before him. At a signal, all the savants raised their hands in unison, put the tablets in their mouths. Eighteen reported a sweet taste. Others said it was bitter, some said it was both...
...then presented the bas-relief bust to President Conant on behalf of the Class of 1937. Mr. Pennypacker's little granddaughter, Nancy, unveiled the tablet...