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...SEED (247 pp.}-William March-Rinehart...
...room with the safety rules and precautions of a radioisotope laboratory, 2 cc. of fluid containing live polio virus are added as a seed stock to each quart of tissue fluid. Back to the rocker go the bottles. The virus multiplies a thousandfold in the kidney cells, and after about four days the potentially deadly crop is ready for harvest. It is chilled in 2½gal. bottles for trucking from Toronto to Eli Lilly & Co. and to Parke, Davis...
Randolph W. Seed: Freshman Soccer; 150 1b. Crew; Varsity lightweight Crew; House Hockey; Harvard Yearbook Publications; Pre-Med Society...
...prisons. "I was assigned to work as a physician," he said, "[but it] was just sham practicing, because there were no drugs and no facilities ... A physician's duties were just to find out whether a man was able to work." On a diet consisting largely of millet-seed soup and bread adulterated with sawdust, many prisoners died of scurvy and pellagra. Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores. "The only thing I could do," said Dr. Devenis, "[was to try to extract vitamin C from...
...mountain paths leading to Sanare. 4,400 ft. up in the western Venezuelan Andes, and on the rutty road leading to Sanare from the "outside." everyone was elated. Hardly a young man among the 5.000 travelers was not carrying a guitar, a violin or a pair of maracas (seed-filled gourds). Making up words as they went along, they sang...