Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journal, watchdog for the U. S. medical profession which examines every patent medicine and household medicament, has been sniffing at this proprietary bone for some time. The philosophy of the Journal, and of the American Medical Association, is to keep foolish people from doctoring themselves where a doctor is really needed. The family medicine chest can become, in its philosophy, a Pandora's box of evil...
...surgeon, clinical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Wartime chief orthopedic consultant of the A. E. F.; after a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore, Md. His chief discovery: a method of injecting sterilized oil into a stiff joint to prevent the reformation of adhesions. A later observation: that bone infections could be cured by the use of bluebottle fly maggots...
...than on the hoof. Next day, after several sessions with a masseur to ease limbs strained by his perilous riding, he cancelled a trip to the Grand National Steeplechase (see p. 24). Said he: "I feel that the mere sight of horses going over the jumps would hurt every bone in my body." Also last week, in Paris, France's "Chariot" was decorated with the ribbon of Knight of the French Legion of Honor...
...armadillos and other rodents infected with the local trypanosomes. Then the bug bites humans, depositing the trypanosomes in the wound. The parasites twist through the blood, causing fever and other malaise. By and by they drill into the heart and other muscles and the thyroid and adrenal glands, bone marrow and brain, where they change their form and multiply. Their spreading through the heart muscle may cause death. The adrenal attack colors the skin bronze. The thyroid infection causes an idiocy...
...charge of the store is Frederick Page, small, bone-spectacled, filled with anecdotes of such famed gourmets as Brillat. Savarin and Edward VII, who would have no paté de foie gras after he saw geese being stuffed with food the better to fatten their livers. To visitors of untrained appetites Mr. Page explains such delicacies as East Indian poppadums, cheeses-marmalades, honeys from Syria, Portugal, Greece, England; Bombay duck; cox-combs in jelly; grouse pie; vintage marmalades; sole farcie en champagne. He explains that Fortnum & Mason anxiously awaits the Department of Agriculture's permission to sell rare soups...