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...protein theory and the reagin theory. Two points are certain about hayfever and the other allergies: 1) certain substances are mildly poisonous to certain people; 2) people react to their personal poisons in specific ways. The irritants may be plant pollens (ragweed, timothy, oak), foods (wheat, milk, eggs, fish), ani maldanders, feathers, dusts. The victim may show his symptoms in his nose and eyes (this is hayfever per se), his skin (hives), brain (migraine), intestines (colitis). Two theories concerning the physiology of allergy have many followers among the specialists. One theory presumes that proteins in pollens, foods, etc. get into...
Most important of musky-smelling ani. mals is the musk deer. The secretion from a small sac found in the male causes the pungent odor, is used in many perfumes. "Musk" was originally the name of musk deer perfume, later was transferred to all animals and plants which had a similar odor. Some musk animals: muskrat, musk duck, musk beetle, musk shrew, musk turtle, musk kangaroo. Plants: musk mallow, musk root, musk clover, musk orchis, musk okra...
Senator Hawes, 60, has a cottage near Doniphan, Mo., where he spends out-of-door vacations, entertains friends with hunting trips. Sent to Congress in 1921, he was. last session, author of a resolution creating a Senate committee to study ani mal problems...
...LaFollettism: It "represents the quintessence of demagogism ani- mated by the vicious purpose of undermining the constitutional foundation of the Republic...
...American Society of Mammalogists, meeting in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, adopted a resolution in favor of the unhampered continuance of scientific experimentation on living ani mals, based on the recognized advances in medicine and surgery made possible through its use, and declaring that these experiments "almost invariably are conducted humanely...