Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Findings: After six hours, clotting time of mature bleeder rats was reduced from, about nine minutes to three. Clotting time of normal male rats, normal dogs and bleeder dogs was reduced about 50%. Chicks which had been given a diet deficient in Vitamin K (bloodclotting vitamin found in leafy vegetables and cereals) showed a reduction in clotting time from about 17 minutes to five after sterol injections. Although the sterol acts like Vitamin K, said the scientists, it is an entirely different substance. Its effects lasted for several days...
...heard his spine crack. To bolster up his telescoped vertebrae doctors had tried three different leather corsets, three fabric corsets with iron stays, as well as heavy doses of Vitamin D, calcium, and ground eggshells. Dr. Meulengracht found that the patient had always had sufficient calcium in his diet, but that apparently little of it had been absorbed for many years. No textbook diagnosis explained his case...
...Powys and Ford belong to the same genus of bookworm, their appetites differ in numerous details. Ford Madox Ford, "an old man mad about writing," prefers his classical diet served with French sauce ("the Mediterranean as against the Nordic tradition"); his main concern is with "fine"' writing, literary form. Lively, rambling, witty, he is at his best in picking out single quotations; at his worst when he strays beyond "pure" literature, as when he declares Dostoyevsky to be "the greatest single influence on the world of today...
People whose daily diet is strychnine retch at Cindy Lou's syrup. Her magnolia-bud ways with men make women who get their guys through manhole methods rage. Swiftly the whole house-party gangs up on her. Then Cindy Lou hits the roof, butts a fat columnist (John Alexander) in the belly, gives the crowd a 100-stripe tongue-lashing, spoils everybody's fun, cooks everybody's goose, flashes a revolver, and winds up with as much loot in Connecticut as Sherman's men got out of Georgia...
Said Dr. Nicoll to astounded reporters: "All the stitches have been absorbed into the heart tissue and cannot possibly cause any trouble. His diet ... is carefully regulated to build up red blood corpuscles. He isn't allowed to smoke or drink, though he is permitted to walk upstairs and do other things which persons with weak hearts should not do." Furthermore, he added, the 27-year-old patrolman has excellent chances for long life. Said jubilant William Manning: "I can hardly wait to get back on my beat. I drive my own car . . . and even play a little ball...