Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bulk of chiropodic practice consists of corn trimming. Last week Podiatrists James S. Bowman and Robert E. Fowler of Temple University School reported a new way of removing corns by injection. They inject solutions of a bismuth compound or salt water or even sterile water around the margin of the corn, thus choking off the tiny blood vessels which feed it. After several injections, the corn dissolves. This treatment, they cautioned, is still in an experimental stage...
After the tumor peeled off, the patient was troubled with a new growth the size of "a large lima bean." When the doctors injected into it an arsenic compound, the lump disappeared in a few days. The patient lived "free from tumor" for two years, finally died of heart failure...
...more vehement than Gus Thorndike on the physical benefits of athletics. It is true, he says, that more accidents occur in football per playing hour than in any other game. But the injuries are usually slight, consist mostly of sprained ankles, wrenched knees, muscle bruises. Only compound fracture he ever treated in an athlete was suffered by a baseball player who slid to second base. Hockey seldom produces more than minor cuts, although the worst case Dr. Thorndike ever treated was a hockey player who lost his eye in a scrimmage...
...Poland, who gave bismuth injections to prostitutes for five years, obtained 95% protection. For the past ten years, fierce Dr. Paul John Hanzlik and his co-workers at Stanford University have been working to put bismuth into practical anti-syphilis pills. Recently they settled on a soluble sodium bismuthate compound which they called "sobisminol." Last week in the American Journal of Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Venereal Diseases they were able to publish an impressive summary of results...
Within the compound of China's Ministry of Information several short-wave radios are tuned in, day & night to each of the world capitals. Before each radio sits an alert operator, ready at a moment's notice to translate a Russian, German, British or French flash and hurry it to the attention of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. One day last week the English-speaking operator was shocked into attention by a BBC commentator. The operator took some notes, then sent a courier to the Gissimo's compound. The report...