Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mate in the spring, but even a bright schoolboy could hardly tell why. Biologist James C. Perry of Cincinnati's Xavier University, no schoolboy by a long shot, was convinced last week that it is not so much the flowers that bloom in the spring as what birds eat that affects their mating cycle. Other investigators had advanced the theory that increased exposure to sunlight in the spring is the sex stimulus. This theory they checked experimentally by inducing sex gland activity with artificial illumination. It looked as if the light stimulated the front lobe of the pituitary ("master...
...which then stimulated the pituitary and through it the sex mechanism. With this hypothesis in mind. Perry irradiated whole-wheat grains with ultraviolet light, fed them to his birds. That did the trick, whereas the sex glands of other birds which received the same (normal) illumination, but did not eat the irradiated, aphrodisiac wheat, remained in the "resting condition...
Over 1,000,000 families in the rural South eat nothing but salt pork, corn meal and molasses. Their members are frequent victims of that painful deficiency disease, pellagra, with its attendant diarrhea, dementia, dermatitis. Physicians have known for nearly 25 years that small amounts of green vegetables and milk will forestall the disease. But still pellagra continues. In its advanced stages it has been considered incurable, since the patients are unable to ingest the necessary kinds of food...
...nicotine, is found in yeast, wheat germ and liver. When considerable quantities were fed to some 300 patients with pellagra, their sores healed, their cramps disappeared. Even patients who were violently insane dramatically regained their wits within 48 hours. In a few days they were able to eat pellagra-preventing foods...
...involved with drunks, with the toxicologist's servants, with the wife and child of a man sentenced to life imprisonment on the toxicologist's evidence. Meantime, Wilt reels off his unwritten stories, long since ignoring poor Bernie, who whimpers because Wilt won't stop to eat, because he has been seduced and because he has lost his money. Unfortunately, the comic side of this Walpurgis Night wandering diminishes when Author Boyle endows Wilt with an intuition, inspired by drink and his own fantasies, that enables him to solve in one night a fraud which takes seven years...