Word: vial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supervise slaughtering. Of his $120 minimum fee for a single injection, most goes for the raw material, he says, leaving him $30. For aged or debilitated patients, and for doctors elsewhere who want to use the method, Rhein-Chemie in Heidelberg packages dried cells (average cost: $5-$10 a vial). "It's like the difference between fresh milk and powdered milk," explains Dr. Niehans...
...only antidote for botulism, and only moderately effective at best, is a Ledejle Laboratories antitoxin (made by injecting botulinus toxin into horses and extracting their immune serum). It costs about $68 a 20,000-unit vial, and each victim needs at least 50,000 units. Nearest supply was in Portland, Ore.: six vials. More was flown from Denver and Los Angeles. Still not enough. At its Pearl River (N.Y.) headquarters, Lederle drained the barrel, packaged nearly all the remaining antitoxin. Total haul: 139 vials, tagged at $9.591-which Lederle marked "paid," as a public service...
...tears, like pearls, began to appear in the eyes of the Madonna." The Syracuse police force added its weight to the evidence. When the figure was removed to headquarters, its tears were said to have wet the tunic of the policeman who carried it. Some were caught in a vial, analyzed chemically, identified as human tears...
...marshes near Sicily's town of Marsala, Hunter Paolo Lamia took aim, shot down a black-plumed, white-breasted stilt plover, a breed seldom seen in Italy, which migrates each fall from Arctic Siberia to North Africa. On the bird's right leg Lamia found a glass vial containing a message, written in Italian with scrawled capital letters on both sides of an eight-inch strip of paper. On orders of the Ministry of the Interior, the paper was painstakingly analyzed, determined to be of Russian manufacture. The message: "Many messages but no hope. For 13 years...
...River, N.Y. had churned out 180,000 doses, set aside half for the armed forces (which will do their own testing, thus hold up distribution for a while), put up the other half immediately for top-priority civilian use. Lederle was pricing its vaccine at about $6.60 for a vial containing ten shots; so the price to patients should be $1 plus doctor...