Word: tubefuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Human Test Tube. Less common but deadlier forms of tuberculosis are meningeal, in which the bacilli attack the covering of the brain and spinal cord, and miliary, in which they spread throughout the system. Untreated, both meningeal and miliary tuberculosis commonly kill within two or three months, and about one-third of the victims get only temporary help from streptomycin. To researchers, a patient with miliary TB is like a human test tube. The course of his disease is so predictable that they can tell just what a drug is doing...
...seven-month-old baby girl named Patty. When her parents brought her to Dr. Charles M. Clark at Western Navajo Hospital in Tuba City, Patty was a wizened starveling of 9 lbs., with miliary TB. Her temperature was 103° and she had to be fed by tube. After 17 days of treatment with isoniazid, her temperature dropped to normal and she began taking the bottle hungrily. Now Patty weighs 16 lbs. and her TB seems to have been arrested...
...QK245 tube," which permits the "storing" of a television picture for as long as a week, will then replay...
Soft Diet. In Copenhagen, when German Sword Swallower Paul Heinrich Ross developed indigestion, he refused to let a doctor put a rubber tube into his stomach because "I just can't bring myself to swallow...
...demand itself unprecedented in law, and added that it "would be punitive as well as destructive of that driving incentive which has accounted for much of the remarkable development of the chemical industry." Noting that Du Pont had spent a total of $196.8 million to bring nylon from test tube to mass production, he observed that it is also spending $45 million a year on research. Said he: "Its past development of new products and processes has done much to promote our national economy and to meet the needs and requirements of national defense...