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This affliction of mankind runs back into the mists of antiquity. Some scholars believe that the ancient Jews knew about syphilis and that this disease and its peculiar transmission were referred to in the Second Commandment: For I the Lord Thy God ama jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. The Greeks, in a dim, foggy way, described ailments contracted by unclean intercourse. The Romans were among the first to develop a sense of shame in connection with venereal diseases and said as little about...
...before Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom had a hand in preparing the Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary. The courtroom rang for a fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear." Quoted from George Eliot...
...glow on, my Harvard brethren, and go ye in bands of six or more to the Copley Theatre. There ye are allowed, nay, even urged, to exert your exuberance in any manner short of breaking chairs. Fit buit for your witty sallies is that touching dra-a-ama, resurrected in all its pristine glory from P.T. Barnum's American Museum, vintage 18 34,--I speak of "The Drunkard, or the Fallen Saved". Ye may hiss the deep-dyed villian, Lawyer Cribbs; ye may shout "Look out," or "Youse is a viper," as he prepares to enmesh in his toils that...
...cancers of the bone. But he does not know just how his mixture of erysipelas and prodigiosus toxins counteracts any such germ. Nonetheless the fluid works. Not a cureall, it has proved effective in a large percentage of inoperable bone cancers. According to last week's AMA Journal, Dr. Christian Jacobsen of Lübeck seems to have discovered that the Coley Fluid works because, like typhoid vaccine, it fortifies the entire body. Significant is the fact that few people who have cancer ever had typhoid, diphtheria or other infectious diseases which create a lifelong immunity...
...West Coast went Joseph P. Ryan, big, hard-boiled president of I. L. A. He permitted a temporary lifting of the embargo on Alaskan shipping out of Seattle because of a threatened food short age. But no truce was extended to the Grace Line, to Luckenbach, Dollar or Pan ama Pacific. Freight had to be carried by rail from San Francisco to Seattle and Portland. The Japanese-owned N. Y. K. Line, with Japanese crews, was permitted to navigate at will, but striking longshore men would not touch its cargoes. Least affected city was Los Angeles, which consequently enjoyed...