Word: basal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnny should learn to read may have passed from the headlines, but to Columnist Dorothy Thompson there is another question that is equally important: Are the schools giving Johnny a reading diet of literature-or of pap? Last week, after comparing the old lesson books to the slick basal readers of today with their controlled vocabularies, word-frequency counts, and bland little tales about Dick and Jane, Columnist Thompson had her answer: "It is possible," says she in the current Ladies' Home
Instead. Jefferson agreed with research which suggests that there exists a waking center within some nerve cells in the brain stem and basal ganglia called "retic-ular formations." Sleep comes when this waking center is deactivated, probably by enzymes. But how this happens is unknown...
...most patients, the old-fashioned basal metabolism test is a mild form of torture, but that would be no reason for discarding it if it were a consistently accurate test. The fact is that it is far from reliable, and four Navy researchers have come to the conclusion that in big medical centers with facilities for handling radioisotopes. it should be replaced by the "atomic cocktail...
...doing too much, said Dr. Matsner, the well-meaning physician may defeat his own purpose. The taking of basal body temperatures for many months, daily vaginal smears and repeated tissue tests can provoke anxiety that leads to tension and to spasm of the fallopian tubes. "By the time a woman gets through with these tests," Dr. Matsner said, "she is so tense that conception is impossible. The poor girl is thinking of exact times and methods, instead of relaxing and letting nature take its course. The couple's sex life should not be regulated by the calendar or dictated...
...attributed their obesity and sterility to the same cause-a childlike desire to be taken care of. "We have often noted," said Dr. Kroger, "that these neurotic women state that they 'will do anything in the world to get pregnant,' yet when given diets and basal body temperature charts, they find many rationalizations for not dieting and keeping the monthly record." The last thing in the world that they really want, he contended, is weight reduction and the normal ovarian function which could make pregnancy possible...