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...colonies in 1721 to prevent serious cases of smallpox-condemned the use by Boston physicians of "Leaden Bullets," to be swallowed for "that miserable Distemper which they called the Twisting of the Guts." By the early 18th century, there were only two drugs known to be specific: cinchona bark for malaria, and mercury as an antisyphilitic agent. Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia (one of four physicians to sign the Declaration of Independence) used bloodletting so extensively that even his colleagues marveled at the survival of his patients. Thomas Jefferson said in 1807, "The patient ... sometimes gets well in spite...
...there's more, a one-man conspiracy, in fact, devoted only to the propagation of "seamless" prose, effortless to read. His name is John McPhee, he is perhaps the finest non-fiction in America, and he writes on anything, from oranges to flying machines, from tennis to bark canoes. [MORE]'s profile is not so finely crafted, but McPhee's light has been so long under the bushel basket that even this brief uncovering is dazzling...
feel: as in, Cot-tuh knocked the bark off a big feel of can-dits...
...expected to employ another familiar Deep South form, the perfective done, as in "he done did it." Between now and November, moreover, his audiences are not apt to hear him describe his opponent, as some Plains folk might, as "a sorry piece of plunder" or threaten to "knock the bark off' him or talk of getting "mad as a puffed toad...
TIME Correspondent David Wood sailed on a recent four-day training cruise aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 295-ft., 1,800-ton bark Eagle; he experienced some of the exhilaration that is drawing the crowds to the ships' parade. Wood remembered Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s line in Two Years Before the Mast: "There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship." He also learned, as Dana did, that "it is all work and hardship after all." Wood described a typical scene aboard the training...