Ginseng tonic capsules

Ginseng root (Panax Ginseng) is a rare produce of China and has been considered an effective tonic for men and women since ancient times. If taken regularly, the root pro­motes health and induces longevity. G. t. c. are prepared with the extract of Ginseng root blended with a number of valuable Chinese crude drugs by means of modern scientific methods. Mild and soothing in nature, G. t. c. is an effective tonic indeed for men and women all the year round.

Action. Blood tonic for organic system and for physical and mental functions.

Indications. Congenital Weakness, Debility and Anemia, Lassitude of Limbs, Somnolentia, Dizziness, Nervousness, Poor Memory, Neurasthenia, Malnutrition.

Direction. 1—2 capsules each dose to be taken daily with lukewarm water in the morning and evening half an hour after meals.

Caution. The bottles must be tightly covered and kept in a cool and dry place away from moisture.

Packing. Each bottle containing 30 capsules of 0.3 gram.

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Task 18. For your home-reading an abridged (short­ened) article from the magazine Newsweek (N. Y.) is suggested. Read and narrate the article using the expres­sions:

the article under review was published in... стаття, яка розглядається, надрукована в... the article is about... стаття про...

the purpose (object) of the article is to describe (to show)... мета статті описати... the first paragraph deals with... у першому абзаці йдеться про...

Перший Київський медичішм коледж

then the article goes on to the problem of... далі стаття торкається проблеми... it is evident that... очевидно, що... it is interesting to note that... цікаво зауважити, що... the final paragraph states (ends with)... в останньому абзаці стверджується, що... to the best of my knowledge... наскільки мені відомо... I, for one, consider that... я, наприклад, вважаю, що... in my opinion... на мою думку

Mending bones with biological “glue”

If the flesh is weak, bones can be weak, too. Fractures are often painfully slow to heal, and bones degenerate with age. Doctors are attempting to repair severe breaks with bone taken from the patient’s body, usually the hip,or with im­plants of new synthetic substances such as calcium triphos­phate. Such implants, however are either scarce or expensive. Now researchers have identified a biochemical substance that could speed up the process that makes bones mend — and might even make old bones strong again.

Collagen Corp., of Palo Alto, Calif., has isolated a hor­mone like protein that induces connective tissue cells sur­rounding bone to form cartilage, the tough white gristle (cartilage) from which bones are made. The protein, du­bbed “cartilage inducting factor” (CIF), is present in hu­man and animal bone, but in quantities that are too minute to heal major fractures quickly. Collagen has succeeded in extracting CIF from pulverized animal bone. By applying a mixture of CIF and other proteins to a fractured area, scientists hope to force cartilage — and, eventually, bone — to grow.

So far Collagen’s scientists have used the method exclu­sively to heal animal fractures, emploing CIF extracted from the bones of cows. With the help of molecular engineers at Monsanto Co., however, Collagen plans to apply recombinant DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) techniques to produce large quantities of CIF. Once CIF extracts are available, Colla­gen’s researchers hope to use the material to do more than just knit together simple fractures. The protein, they believe, can be utilized to replace bone tissue lost from gum disease, fuse spines, reconstruct cleft palates and correct other con­genital deffects.

Task 19, Read the text, choose the paragraphs that took your fancy and express in your own words the rea­son of your choice whether positive or negative:

DOCTQ(B&gRI£-HOUSE ttg ' * ffi by PI, Gordon¹

{an extract}

To a medical student the final examinations are some­thing like death: an unpleasant inevitability to be faced sooner or later, one’s state after which is determined by the care spent in preparing for the event.

.. .The examination is split into three sections, each one of which must be passed on its own. First there are the written papers, then ^wviya voce¹' examinations?, and finally the clini­cal, when the student is presented with a patient and re­quired to turn in a competent diagnosis in half an hour.

!i,t went with a hundred other students into one of the three large, square halls used for the examination. The pol­ished wooden floor was covered with rows of desks set at a distance apart that made one’s neighbour’s writing completely undecipherable if he had not, as was usually the case, already done so himself- Each desk was furnished with a card stamped with a black examination number, a clean square of pink blotting paper, and a pen apparently bought second­hand from the Post Office. The place smelt of floor-polish and fresh-sharpened pencils.

A single invigilator sat in his gown and hood on a raised platform to keep an eye open for flagrant cheating. lie was helped by two W three uniformed pprters who. stood by the doors and looked impassionately down at the poor victims, like the policemen that flank the dock at the Old Baily³. The students scraped into their chairs, shot a hostile glance at the clock, and turned apprehensively to the buff question paper already laid out on each desk.

The first paper was on general medicine. The upper half of the sheet was taken up with instructions in bold print telling the candidate to write on one side of the paper only, answer all the questions, and to refrain from cribbing'¹ at peril of being thrown out. 1 brought my eyes painfully to the four questions beneath. At a glance I saw they were all short and pungent.

‘Give an account of the signs, symptoms, and treatment of heart failure’ was the first. “Hell of a lot in that!”⁵1 thought.

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I read the second one and cursed. ‘Discuss the changes in the treatment of pneumonia since 1930.’ I felt the examiners had played a dirty trick by asking the same disease two years in succession. The next simply demanded ‘How would you investigate an outbreak of typhoid fever?’ and the last was a request for an essay on worms which I felt I could bluff my way through.

Three hours were allowed for the paper. About half-way through the anonymous examinees began to differentiate themselves. Some of them strode up for an extra answer book⁶, with an awkward expression of selfconsciousness and superiority in their faces. Others rose to their feet, han­ded in their papers, and left. Whether these people were so brilliant they were able to complete the examination in an hour and a half or whether this was the time required for them to set down unhurriedly their entire knowledge of medicine was never apparent from the nonchalant air with which they left the room. The invigilator tapped bell half an hour before time; the last question was rushed through, then the porters began tearing papers away from gentlemen dissatisfied with the period allowed for them to express themselves and hoping by an incomplete sen­tence to give the examiners the impression of frustrated bril­liance.

I walked down the stairs feeling as if I had just finished an eightround fight. ... The other candidates jostled round, chattering like children just out of school.

Notes

’Richard Gordon has been an anaesthetist at a big Lon­don hospital,a ship’s surgeon and assistant editor of a medical journal. He also wrote quite a number of books. “Doctor in the House”, “Doctor at Large”, “Doctor at Sea”, “Doctor in Love”, “Doctor and Son”, “Surgeon at Arms” are among them.

²“viva voce” examination — when the students answer orally

³01d Baily — a prison in London

⁴cribbing — using cribs during the examination

^sHeIl of a lot in that! — it is rather a voluminous task (question)

⁶answer book — a paper or a few sheets for the candi­dates’ answersTask 4. 1 — b; 2 — j; 3 — d; 4 — 1; 5 — i; 6 — k; 7 — m; 8 n;

9 - h; 10 - g; 11 - a; 12 - f; 13 - e; 14 - c.

Task 5. 1 — c; 2 — d; 3 V f; 4 — i; 5 — a; 6 — j; 7 — h; 8 — e;

9 — g; 10 - b.

Task 6. 1. As far as their function in concerned the hands allow us

to work. 2. As far as their function is concerned the feet allow us to walk. 3. As far as their function is concerned the teeth allow us to chew (to masticate). 4. As far as their function is concerned the eyes allow us to see. 5. As far as their function is concerned the ears allow us to hear and to listen to. 6. As far as their function is concerned the lips allow us to speak and to kiss. 7. As far as their function is concerned the eyelids and eyelashes allow us to protect the eyes.

Task 10. 1 — e; 2 — a; 3 — b; 4 -? d; 5 — f: 6 — c.

Task 11. 1 — c (osteoporosis); 2 (osteomyelitis); 3 — d (seque­

strum); 4 — e (acromegalia); 5 — a (myograph).

Task 15. 1 — c (intramuscular); 2 — d (pharmacology); 3 ^ a (contraindications); 4 — c (pharmacognosy); 5 — f (phar­macodynamics); 6 — b (analgesic, analgetic).