Word: trone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London's Central Middlesex Hos pital he gave carbenoxolone (Biogas-trone) to outpatients who had severe gastric ulcers. When more than two-thirds of them showed substantial healing of their ulcers on their X rays, Dr. Doll was still doubtful. It was all a mistake, he decided, or "a statistical sport." He spent more wearisome months repeating the test on another batch of patients-and he got the same results. There was, he concluded, something to licorice extract after...