Word: adrenaline
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Austrian heart specialist named William Raab gave himself a stiff injection of adrenalin. In a few minutes he felt an agonizing stab in his shoulder, a choking sensation in his throat, lightning pains down his left arm, a drenching sweat. Dr. Raab's agony was really a triumph. For he had produced, for the first time, symptoms of the dread heart disease, angina pectoris...
...force-is a nine-lived cat. Supposedly killed off several times, it still keeps pattering around science's pantry. Last week Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives, an astute and merry physicist who works for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Manhattan, gave the old tabby a good strong shot of mathematical adrenalin...