Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Press association teleprinters chattered last week with seemingly momentous news from Boston: "Discovery of a mold extract which seeks and destroys fresh blood clots in minutes ... can be used safely on the sickest patient . . . credited with furnishing quick relief for sufferers of heart attacks." Editors front-paged the claims, which had been announced by the Massachusetts Heart Association...
...more dismayed by the sensational stories than Dr. Mario Stefanini of Boston's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, who had worked for two years to get the extract (an enzyme) from common molds. He has found that it dissolves the fibrous part of clots in animals and has tested its safety in 25 humans. But it will be two years, he estimates, before its value in relieving the symptoms of heart attacks and strokes can be shown. In any case it cannot reverse the original damage done by the clot. There is no assurance that the extract...
...started running his bylined weekly column and published a picture and thumbnail sketch of its author, the Cincinnati Dental Society objected that "Your Teeth" was a "weekly advertisement" and thus violated its code of ethics. Last August the dental society's twelve-man council voted to extract his membership card...
...running U.S. racketeering), Squillante always managed to avoid deep trouble, although his address book produced the names of such crooks as Joey Surprise, Nanny the Geep and Joe Stutz. He got caught only once, on an income-tax rap. He solved that, the committee charged, by having his boys extract $57,855 from two cartmen's groups, then paying up his taxes...
Main difficulty is that it takes the pineal glands of 15 steers to make one day's dose for one patient. With only small quantities available so far, Dr. Altschule estimates that it will take at least two years to get a firm verdict on the extract's value. Meanwhile, he is testing a preparation from the same substance to be taken by mouth, and chemists are hoping to synthesize it. Exactly why any substance from the pineal gland should have this effect is just as mysterious as oldtime speculation about the clairvoyant third...