Word: tubefuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary general practice in Medford until 1946, when he cultured some staphylococcus germs from a patient's nose. He noticed that the culture was being eaten away, so he sent it to a friend at Boston University, who told him that he had a bacteriophage in the test tube. Soon, the friend began growing the germs and their sidekicks, the phages, in murky bottles. Dr. Lincoln used the extracted phage material to drip into the noses of patients with minor ailments, generally sinusitis...
...subject breathes into a tube connected with the machine. Alcohol in his breath reacts with a mixture of iodine and oxygen to yield free iodine. Photo-electric measurements of the intensity of a beam of light passed through the free iodine in a starch solution record the alcoholic content on a dial...
...mother touched the boy's cheek. "What made him do it? What made him do it?" she said in a low voice. The parents and the police followed the boy upstairs. In the surgery, a woman intern began a transfusion of blood and saline solution, slipped a tube through the boy's nose and into his stomach to sample its contents for telltale signs of blood...
Scoops & Baffles. Liebman's actors, now TVeterans, have survived the harsh lights of early TV and, thanks to the new orthicon camera tube, which makes a clearer picture possible with less light, use little make-up and fewer aspirins...
...Fowler quickly examined his patient. Part of the hot blast had traveled along the anesthesia tube: bright red blood from broken vessels in the lungs was filling Patient Cummings' windpipe. The blood was drained off, and a mask was fitted to give artificial respiration. But little more than two hours later, Father Cummings was dead, the victim of the kind of accident every hospital dreads. Explosions of anesthetic gases (in this case, a mixture of nitrous oxide, ether and cyclopropane) happen about once in 75,000 operations, and are almost certain to cause serious injury to the patient...