Word: biling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continuing the researches of his great preceptors, Dr. Calmette with his associate C. Guérin, a veterinary surgeon, discovered that the descendants of the tuberculosis bacillus, bred for many generations in ox bile and glycerine, lost their virulency but could establish immunity in young animals against potent tuberculosis germs. In their experience the vaccine must be fed to an infant who has been exposed to the disease during its first ten days of life. Later it may be given hypodermically. It is powerless to cure, but has undoubtedly prevented tuberculosis...
...what part of the body is the bile secreted...
...Liver. (The bile is a sticky yellowish, or greenish fluid secreted by the liver...
...Heard some four hours of Senator Heflin's prolific bile on his stale subject of Roman Catholic conspiracy to control U. S. politics. Said Mr. Heflin: "A Catholic bullet brought Roosevelt down. If I am murdered, many "Catholic priests will pay the penalty. But I have suggested a course to carry on ... I am anxious to see how much notice the press will give...
...proceeded for an hour and a quarter, but his system was still not fully relieved of bile. In a final orgasm of accusation he gave utterance to his long-festering abomination of the press gallery, which has repeatedly declared itself bored by his bombast. "Poor little purse-proud puppets," he sneered, "holding out their hands to get something scurrilous to write about a man who is trying to serve his country." The six gazers quickly reported the matter to their fellows, who, by tradition, leave the gallery when the Senator from Alabama rises...