Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Effective treatment for celiaca is skimmed lactic-acid milk and plenty of ripe bananas, and injections of pancreatic extract. But thanks to submarines, the U.S. has few bananas, and without fresh or powdered bananas celiacous children may develop the disease all over again, losing, in a few days, all the weight they have gained over a period of months...
...found naturally in alfalfa, hog liver, cabbage, tomatoes and possibly in unrefined sugar, is valuable for its properties as a blood-clotter, especially in hemorrhages of newborn infants. When taken into the mouth, Dr. Fosdick discovered, vitamin K serves another function-it prevents sugars from turning into tooth-corroding acid...
...widely touted "cure" for athlete's foot should not be sold to the public, announced the Food & Drug Administration. Reason: this particular mixture, composed of camphor and phenol (carbolic acid) "is capable of producing necrosis [gangrene] and is too dangerous for indiscriminate use." According to the Administration, phenol-camphor should be sold only on a physician's prescription, must be labeled POISON, and be plastered with warnings, instructions, first-aid directions in case of accident...
...combat athlete's foot (dermatophytosis)-the itch caused by the toe-burrowing fungi dermatophytes which infest locker rooms and swimming pools-there are at least a hundred bland salves and powders on the market. Favorites: boric acid and sulfur powders, salves of salicylic acid and benzoic acid mixed with vaseline; an ether-collodion mixture. These generally clear up the mild, itching cases which annoy millions of people...
...anguish: "Can nobody dampen the airy-fairy optimism of the military spokesmen in Cairo?" Apparently not. Even after Tobruk, the Cairo censorship seemed determined to let only pink fog get through the screen-thus taxing the ingenuity of one sardonic correspondent who was bound to get a little acid out along with the fog. Chester Morrison of the Chicago Sun cabled his paper: "The delicacies of censorship are such that I was stumped in trying to devise a way to tell the whole story now unfolding here other than by relaying the communique cliches. These may be acceptable to experts...