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...jargon. They call a needle and a syringe a "spike & dripper." A sniff of heroin is a "snort of horse," and an injection under the skin a "joy pop." Many teen-agers quickly become "mainliners" -because it is cheaper and quicker if they inject the drug directly into a vein, most often with a safety pin and an eyedropper...
...simplest way is to administer dilute salt or glucose solution by vein. But the effect lasts only a short time. Blood plasma, the clear portion of human blood, is better. It contains protein molecules of a definite size and shape that keep it from leaking out of the blood vessels. An emergency plasma substitute needs some harmless substance with the same sort of molecules. Several such substances, including gelatin, Dextran (a complex sugarlike compound) and PVP (polyvinyl pyrrolidone), a synthetic made from acetylene, do the job to some extent, but none is both plentiful and entirely satisfactory. Okra for Shock...
...spring term saw a gradual increase in student interest in the world situation. students burned Hitler in effigy on the Anderson Bridge. In a more serious vein, the Student Council repeatedly urged that senior draftees be awarded early degrees, which the Faculty approved for honor students that...
...check their theory, they injected huge quantities of white leukemic cells into a vein of each of five non-leukemic patients. Blood counts taken from an artery after the blood had passed through the lungs showed an immediate drop in the white cell count...
...ablest craftsmen in this modest vein is 32-year-old, Sussex-born P. H. (for Percy Howard) Newby, who is little known in the U.S., but highly regarded at home. His new novel, The Young May Moon, is so neatly constructed and so quietly effective in the flow of its prose that until the very end it seems more substantial than it actually...