Word: compounders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Planter Plunkett was invited to a seance in the walled compound of his friend Pat Dove, he took along a camera and films. Long before Mr. Plunkett saw the Yogi, he could hear the monotonous roll of tom-toms. Coolies working in the adjacent field heard it too, and more than a hundred of them crept into the 80-by-80 ft. inclosure. Subbayah Pullavar, a gaunt, wiry Yogi, told Mr. Plunkett he had been "levitating" for 20 years, that his family had been doing it for hundreds. Mr. Plunkett was impressed by Subbayah's "long hair hanging...
...show began at about 12:30 p. m. The sun was directly overhead "so that shadows played no part in the performance." In the middle of the compound four poles had been struck up to support a roof of branches. Subbayah traced a circle in water on the sands around this makeshift tent, forbade any man wearing leather shoes to step inside...
Significantly, President Angell recalls more vividly than any other period of his life the year, when he was 11, spent with his parents in Peiping. President Hayes had made his father Minister to China. The sights and sounds of the legation compound, the stillness of the Orient under snow, the pony the British Minister gave him, the hard-packed clay roads in summer, the incredible remoteness of the place and the kindliness and decorum of the Chinese are memories which return to President Angell with infinitely more clarity than the last meeting of the Yale Corporation...
...Levis & Edward Lewis Axelman of Philadelphia call theirs a "Modern Method for Prevention of Postoperative Distention." They depend upon a newly synthesized drug to keep the bowels moving and expelling any gas which may form. The drug: dimethyl-carbamic ester of 3-hydroxyphenyl-trimethyl ammonium methyl-sulphate, a chemical compound which has been telescoped to prostigmin. Drs. Levis & Axelman inject small amounts of prostigmin "at the time of operation or shortly thereafter and continue injections for 24 to 48 hours at four to six hour intervals, or until such time that we feel the condition of the patient indicates...
Unrivaled by Father John or the Smith Brothers, Lydia Pinkham was for years the most vivid personality in the U. S. medicine chest. Lydia Estes Pinkham died in Lynn, Mass, in 1883. Her prim pictures, however, remained on every package of tier famed Vegetable Compound, and clerks went on answering in her name 100,000 letters per year from women who thought the compound relieved their periodic ills. When the late Edward W. Bok started his crusade against patent medicines, he debunked the post-mortem Pinkham correspondence by publishing in his Ladies' Home Journal a picture of Mrs. Pinkham...