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...Manhattan laboratory of Drs. Irving Sherwood Wright and Dean Moffat who reported the latest of several studies on cigarets and capillary constriction, men and women sat bolt upright with their hands stretched over a table high as their chests. Pointed at the transparent flesh around the finger nails was a special capillary microscope. Intermittently for three-hour tests, subjects held the pose and puffed at cigarets, suspended on slender reeds before their lips. Some of the cigarets were standard brands; others were de-nicotinized; still others were mentholated. Then, too, there were rolls of shredded paper containing no tobacco...
...Drs. Wright or Moffat would light a cigaret on a reed and tell the subject to smoke at his natural rate, while electric thermometers registered the temperatures of fingertips and the doctors studied through the microscope the behavior of blood in the nail fold capillaries. In most cases, except for shredded paper cigarets, finger temperatures dropped from 1° to 15° with each smoke. In several cases, circulation of blood ceased, briefly but entirely, in the capillaries of the nail folds...
...heirs to a large estate. But Benoyendra was envious and impatient for the heritage. He insured Amarendra's life for $20,000, stipulating that in case of death the insurance company was not to look into its manner or cause. Immediately thereafter intrigue mounted rapidly. Benoyendra set Drs. Bhattacharya, Bhattacharyee and Dhar to "ransacking all India" for a subtle poison with which to kill Amarendra. The conspirators acquired a store of tetanus germs. Benoyendra smeared the tetanus germs on the nose piece of a pair of spectacles and with firm solicitude jammed them on Amarendra's face. Amarendra...
First recorded super-nova was observed in the Milky Way in 1572. It was visible in full daylight. Another appeared in Andromeda in 1885. Since 1900 about a dozen have been found by chance on photographic plates, mostly in the Virgo cluster of nebulae. Drs. Baade & Zwicky estimate that each galaxy has one super-nova every thousand years. The average nebula contains a billion stars. If one star committed suicide in the super-nova manner every thousand years, the nebula would be exhausted in one trillion years?which happens to be the figure commonly set by astrophysicists as the minimum...
...bananas and a glass of skimmed milk was all the nourishment that Alice Joy received at any meal. Drs. Bundesen and Fishbein also allowed her some coffee and tea (without sugar or cream) and large quantities of water. A week of that diet lost her 4½ lb., brought her down to 135¾ lb., made her whimper: "I'm hungry. And I'm tired. I couldn't lick a kitten...