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...most endearing portraits in the Album. Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas." Contemptuous of doctors, she cured her husband of fever by forcing a broth of sheep droppings down his protesting gullet. For stubborn pregnancies she blew powdered tobacco "up one nostril of the expectant mother," and so brought on a fit of sneezing that would "dislodge the most reluctant baby...
...asked Pfizer, Merck & Co., and E. R. Squibb to try to mass-produce penicillin, Pfizer was right at home; penicillin could be made only by fermentation. But the process was slow because the mold, which needs air to exist, was being grown only on the surface of a chemical broth at the recovery rate of one unit to 1,000,000 units of broth. Says McKeen: "It was just about the amount of gold you find in sea water." Pfizer worked out a method to grow the penicillin all through the broth by shooting in oxygen, got such...
...This country is suffering from malnutrition of the soul, and the watery broth of lip service and frosting of morality are not going to get it back on the road to recovery. Our too many religious cooks have added so many man-made seasonings and garnishes to the original all-nourishing Christianity that we are in the stew instead of its being in us . . . MRS. CHARLES R. ALLERS JR. Pittsburgh...
...hero, Mico Mor, is a broth of a fisherman's boy in County Galway - no champ for brains but strong on earthy virtue. In one of his first scenes, young Mico rashly throws a tin cup at a flock of geese; they charge down the beach and drive him near to drowning in the sea. But like the youngest prince in the old stories, Mico comes through where many a more calculating fellow fails...
...with him, that his theories could eventually be very useful in coaching. The Navy also agrees; it has been paying all the expenses of testing, both for Stone's initial work last fall, and for a check experiment now being run at another Ivy League college by Stone's broth C. Elliott. It hopes to use the data obtained in formulating a test to determine how men will react under pressure of battle...