Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That a bastard could keep a bitter bargain when an emperor of the blood could not, is the thrilling tale which Author Preedy tells in all the sharp contrast of two disparate natures. With ingenious charm he answers an enigma of European history, enriching it with intriguing rogues, loyal soldiers, a soothsayer, an acrid duchess, and a golden-haired damsel who sets a light at her bedroom window...
...reason why quinine is important is that it is a specific against malaria. It is useful also as a tonic, its bitterness causing the secretion of saliva and gastric juices. When quinine gets into the blood it causes beneficent sweating. It is a bactericide also, slightly stronger than the same strength of carbolic acid, yet not exceptionally powerful. Bacteria are low-grade vegetable organisms. The thing which causes malaria is animal?plasmodium malariae?introduced into the human blood stream by a breed of mosquito. Quinine in the blood kills the plasmodium in the blood...
...dead enemy provides blood-curdling Cuban spooks, but the author ingeniously produces a flesh-and-blood murderer...
Pituitary Hormones. Pituitrin, extract of the hazelnut-like gland at the underside of the brain, does three things to a body: 1) it causes powerful contractions of the pregnant uterus at term (its oxytocic effect); 2) it makes blood pressure (its pressor effect); 3) it increases urinary flow where urine is scanty and decreases it where the flow is inordinately great, as in diabetes insipidus (its diuretic-anti-diuretic effect). So there must be more than one hormone in the pituitary gland, decided Dr. Oliver Kamm, director of Parke. Davis & Co.'s research laboratories. By tedious fractional precipitation...
...good memory. He knows that Mr. Smith once killed his political ambitions in New York State. The Hearst press has made similar attacks on the Smith integrity before now and Governor Smith once flayed Publisher Hearst as follows: "He has not got a drop of good, clean, pure, red blood in his whole body. And I know the 'color of his liver, and it is whiter, if that could be, than the driven snow. . . . That fellow nearly murdered my mother. . . . Foul, dirty pen . . . slimy ink. . . . Greatest living enemy of the people whose cause he pretends to espouse...