Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...striking physiognomy. Like many other practical people I am a student of physiognomy, which is the 'art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance, especially from facial features.' I find as years go on that my first impressions of people, based on physiognomy, stand the test of time better than more reasoned and intellectual analyses. Consequently I have been impressed from the first by that general nobility of character and godlike quality that shines from Mr. Garner's countenance. The eyes are large, candid and idealistic; the mouth generous and honest to a fault; the nose...
...belief, set to work on the hunch that the rate of speed of sugar absorption depends directly upon the amount of thyroxin produced by the thyroid gland. Thus, hyperthyroids would absorb sugars at a higher rate of speed than diabetics. Last week, he reported a simple new sugar-timing test which he has used successfully on 250 patients. For this long-awaited achievement, he was promptly awarded the Van Meter Prize of $300 by the American Association for the Study of Goiter...
...test, Dr. Althausen feeds his patients 40 grams of galactose, a sugar derived from milk and certain gummy plants, but not normally present in human blood. After an hour, a drop of blood is taken from an ear lobe, and tested for the presence of galactose. A normal person will have from 20 to 30 milligrams of the sugar in every hundred cubic centimetres of blood; a hyperthyroid. around 70 milligrams; a diabetic, whose thyroid is not stepped up, shows the same amount of galactose as a normal person, although, of course, his blood and urine are saturated with unused...