Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one droplet in a teaspoonful of syrup, and the kids swallowed it-thus cutting out the need for hypodermic needles, which are expensive and can be dangerous. Then there was the economy: one-hundredth of the injection dose. Perhaps most important: live virus taken by mouth multiplies in the digestive tract, quickly triggers development of antibodies and protects the whole system. The Russians argue that the killed form, injected into the bloodstream, safeguards only the nervous system (against paralysis...
...March 7 Black Saddle (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). A meaningless title conceals a western about a lawyer (Peter Breck) almost as fast with his mouth as he is with his gun. It is all good, unwholesome...
...Cancer of the mouth and pharynx, rare in the West as compared with cancer elsewhere in the body, is far commoner, both absolutely and proportionately, in Southeast Asia...
...direct mouth-to-mouth method of artificial respiration (TIME, April 21) won approval of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council as a standard for all first-aid efforts. Already adopted by the U.S. Army, and with prompt endorsement by the American Red Cross expected, it will probably replace the prone-pressure and back-pressure-arm-lift systems...
...world, the enormous success of Farmer North and thousands like him may be even more significant. The new methods have proved just as successful abroad as in the U.S. For example, in England, Farmer Anthony Fisher tried his hand at dairying. After his herd died of foot-and-mouth disease he was about ready to quit. Hearing about the U.S. system of raising broilers, he wrote to Ralston Purina Co. to get free brochures on how to do it. He started out with 200 birds. Now his output has grown to 1,000,000 a year. The broiler king...