Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain number of Wasserman tests result in positive reactions even where syphilis is not present, he explained, and the only way of distinguishing between true and spurious reactions is to test the whole immediate family of the patient, a procedure which was not followed in this survey...
...Boston authority on syphilis, who requested that his name be withheld since he is an employees of the U.S. Public Health Service which released the syphilis survey, stated that the average number of false reactions with the standard blood test, is 2 per 1000, a factor of error which would completely invalidate the American Social Hygiene Association's findings...
...front lobe make the pituitary the "master gland." Yet no one knows just what or how many hormones the front lobe secretes. The trouble is that-although a few front lobe hormones have been freed of all but small traces of impurities-a living body's response under test may be due not to the hormone tested but to an "impurity...
They have measured the crop-sac response of pigeons so closely that it serves as a quantitative test for prolactin in samples sent there by other laboratories. Dr. Bates, who took part in the original discovery of the hormone, has specialized in this "biological assay." Dr. Schooley has worked out a pituitary removal technique for pigeons, going in through the pharynx at the back of the throat, which leaves the back lobe of the gland intact so that almost all the birds survive the operation...
...held this year on the John Sherburno Trail at Pinkham Notch, It is sanctioned by the United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association, but there will be no class distinctions. The Sherburne, trail is wide and looks fairly easy, nonetheless frequent bottle-necks and a rutty surface make it a test of Intermediate ability. Only the bottom mile and a half will be raced...