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...healing dose is "measured by the 100th parts of a cubic centimeter" of ACS, injected under a patient's skin or into a vein. Two doses may last a lifetime. Large doses are harmful and are never used. Minute amounts make tissue activity speed up. Professor Bogomoletz believes that probable longevity goes with each dose, no matter for what reason it is given...
According to this account, German Ambassador Otto Abetz had traveled to Vichy, ready to lay down the law with a six-page letter in Joachim von Ribbentrop's most violent vein. The message accused Petain of "departing from the policy agreed on at Montoire," and made three main demands...
...Local anesthesia can be used less often than might be expected; many patients are too restless, while others have wounds elsewhere unsuitable for local anesthesia." The alternative is sodium pentothal by vein...
Martinu's music got a fine critical reception. Though he inherits the great Czech tradition of Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak, Martinu does not work in their sunlit, melodically fecund vein. The emotional tone of his music is measured, but it has genuine dignity, drama and decided individuality. Softspoken, shy, 52-year-old Martinu grew up in the little Czech town of Policka, where his father was a shoemaker, played the violin for a decade with the famed Czech Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. In 1923 he went to Paris, stayed for nearly 20 years. A very serious...
...London. For his comic Dickensian tales of London dockside life, beaky, grey-thatched Jacobs drew on boyhood experiences as the son of a Wapping wharf manager. With Many Cargoes (1896) he freed himself from a post-office clerkship. But though he culled some 17 volumes in the same vein for his 1931 omnibus, Snug Harbour, his best-known short story was the macabre The Monkey...