Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fringe of medical research are a number of doctors who sometimes make strange, wonderful and unexplained cures. One such is Dr. Burr Ferguson of Birmingham. Ala., who claims to cure practically every known disease by injections of diluted hydrochloric acid. In some cases he succeeds. He thinks his treatment works because the hydrochloric acid stimulates the production of white blood cells which destroy germs and help to heal wounds. Medical scholars pay no attention to him or his medication. On the other hand, many country doctors believe in Dr. Ferguson and use diluted hydrochloric acid (now widely sold in sterile...
Last week a more scholarly doctor pulled just as startling a medication as hydrochloric acid out of his sick-rooms, popped it before the medical profession for all comers to examine and criticize. Dr. Denis Eugene St. Jacques, professor of history of medicine in the University of Montreal, claims to cure patients of boils, erysipelas, gonococcic infections, rheumatism, tonsillitis, peritonitis, childbed fever, pneumonia, inflammation of gallbladder, shingles-by injecting finely powdered charcoal into their veins...
...Palmer, relict of the late Red-baiting U. S. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, last January got the Soviet-made Baltic Deputy banned. Ever since then, said she, Communists (especially "a dark, unshaven man with a short, horrible cigar in his mouth") have tracked her, muttered threats, once threw acid at her, tried to get into her hotel room. Cracked Liberal Lawyer Louis F. McCabe, who is carrying the cinema ban to the State Supreme Court: "A woman as charming as Mrs. Palmer might be annoyed by mashers at any time. Possibly she mistook their motives...
...Business School works quietly and continually. Clarence De Mar, San Romani, Johnny Kelley, Cunningham, Venzke, even Barry Wood have undergone tests by riding stationary bicycles and performing other fatiguing exercises. In addition, several dogs are employed to measure their amount of heart beats and quantity of lactic acid. The Harvard's Film Service has produced a moving picture for the Laboratory...
Bert Haines' 150-pound Varsity crew is a snappy little eight which proved its merit against M. I. T. over a week ago and which will meet its acid test in the A. R. A. Regatta at Princeton this weekend...