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...they ever be, available to the public. In 1924 when the Morgan Library was handed over to a group of trustees as a semi-public institution, the present head of the House of Morgan wrote: "One soiled thumb could undo the work of 900 years, and a misplaced cough could be a disaster...
...first time last week the public could view the manuscripts and cough its head off without danger of damage. To the Public Library under armed guard were moved 150 of the Morgan treasures to be placed in cloth-lined cases, each with a wet sponge in a little dish to keep the vellum leaves from cracking...
Pondering these facts, jovian Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association last week was moved to wrath. At two phrases which lately began appearing on the wrappers of Smith Brothers' cough drops and cough syrup he cast a three-column edi torial bolt, gist of which lay in two words. Smith Brothers' phrases were: "Contains Primary VITAMIN A. THE 'ANTI-INFECTIVE' VITAMIN." Editor Fishbein's two words: "meretricious quackery...
Similar feelings must have been felt by a member of the Saltonstall family, who wrote to the Secretary for information in University Hall whether he was aware that the cough-drop shaped affair on the Dunster Gable was the mark of a spinster. To this the Secretary replied, with some wit, asking whether Mr. Saltonstall did not consider his Alma Mater a spinster...
...forefinger of my left hand I clipped off, with my penknife in my right hand, the sharp point of the rib, which enabled me to return the lung into the cavity of the thorax, but could not retain it there on the least effort of the patient to cough, which was frequent...