Word: branning
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When word comes, ground crews rush out to the planes, load them with bombing materials-a mixture of bran and sodium fluosilicate. Into the Nevada-Utah mountains the pilots fly until they see below them tumultuous marching armies of brown insects, so dense that they look like waves of molasses. Diving within 50 feet of the crags, the pilots drop their poisoned bait. The goggle-eyed, wingless crickets stop, eat, die-95% of them on warm days, 75% on cool days (when they are idler, less hungry...
...common cause of deafness is deterioration of the eighth nerve, which leads to the ear. Five years ago, Dr. Selfridge noticed that most of his deaf patients ate very little food containing vitamin B, essential for healthy nerves. So he tried out vitamin B in tablets, rice bran and injections on over 100 cases of nerve deafness...
...after a year's intensive research he is preparing to publish his latest findings on bran. Part of his project consists of new experiments to observe the effects of bran on human beings. Last week in his cluttered laboratories in Chicago, he and his assistants were busy feeding bran to 100 volunteers, students of the medical school...
Each student is observed for three weeks. X-rays of the abdomen are made every few hours to follow the progress of food through the intestines. During the first week the volunteers live on bran-free diets, during the second week eat bran, during the third week again return to bran-free food...
...arising from the abnormal retention of fecal material in these portions of the bowel. There is no doubt as evidenced from practical experience that many such individuals who find themselves to have irregular and inadequate bowel movements can secure more regular and more satisfactory evacuations by the use of bran in their diet...