Word: tainter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Syracuse University Crew-Stroke, G. Bradley '40; 7, H. Hadley '40; 6, L. Foster '38; 5, E. Otis '38; 4, J. More '40; 3, J. Bolke '39; 2, N. Davey '39; bow, B. Tainter '40; cox, R. Richardson...
...Morris Fishbein, who was educated to be a pathologist, has on at least one previous occasion nearly scorched his editorial nose by prematurely poking it into news of chemical drugs. It will be a long time before he forgets publishing in his Journal a hasty report by Drs. Cutting & Tainter of San Francisco that dinitrophenol was a useful drug for fat people to take to reduce weight speedily. Dinitrophenol does reduce weight. But as Dr. Fishbein warily editorialized, ". . . it is a two-edged sword with appalling possibilities for harm as well as for good." It was soon found that dinitrophenol...
...Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, upon the suggestion of the late Acting Dean Henry George Mehrtens (neuropsychiatrist interested in artificial fevers), Dr. Windsor Cooper Cutting, 25, and Professor Maurice Lane Tainter, 34, have been cautiously trying out the effects of dinitrophenol on themselves, friends and animals. They have found, they declared in an eager preliminary report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, that...
...effects of dinitrophenol have not been tried on sick people, because the San Francisco investigators have not yet probed all its pharmacological repercussions. Investigators Cutting and Tainter begged last week that, "for the present, dinitrophenol be used only as an experimental therapeutic procedure in carefully selected patients under close observation by the physician...