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Word: calvus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well look to Zonite Products Corp., which is currently advertising that all traces of onion may be quickly eliminated by a Zonite gargle, a process characterized as possible by Dr.Howard Wilcox Haggard and Chemist Leon A. Greenberg (TIME, July 1, 1935), as impossible by Drs. Marion Arthur Blankenhorn and Calvus Elton Richards (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Onions | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Professor Marion Arthur Blankenhorn and Dr. Calvus Elton Richards, both of Cincinnati's General Hospital, were convinced that, when eaten, the essential oils of onion and garlic pass into the blood, are aerated into the lungs and from there breathed out. In proof, they offered the results of an experiment on a patient whose mouth was blocked off from his stomach by a cancer of the esophagus, who could receive nourishment only through a tube in the abdominal wall. Through this tube the experimenters introduced garlic soup. Three hours later the patient's breath began to smell, continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Garlic Breath | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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