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...alcoholic taking the "conditioned reflex therapy" is first given an injection of emetine, which is, unbeknownst to him, a powerful regurgitant. The conditioning takes place in a small, drab clinic furnished with a kind of throne for the patient and a number of large white enamel pans. On a throne-side table are "all conceivable types of liquor...
Only three of the building's six floors appear above ground. Two floors are devoted solely to stacks and cabinets of baked enamel while the others include a variety of offices, repair shops, and reading and exhibition rooms
...Putting its spring catalogue in the mails, Sears, Roebuck remarked that some of the substitute materials in its merchandise "have been found to be far superior to the metal they have replaced. . . ." Examples: washing machine agitators, formerly aluminum, are now of Bakelite, vitreous china, enamel or plastic, all impervious to alkalis; a pump unit, formerly of brass and stainless steel, will use corrosion-resisting plastics...
Nobody knows exactly why teeth decay. Dentists generally agree on one clue to the mystery: certain acid-forming bacteria, such as lactobacilli, grow on tooth enamel, ferment crumbs of sweet and starchy foods which lodge in tooth crevices. The acid thus formed dissolves calcium in the teeth, causes cavities...
Congratulatory messages from President Conant, Dean Burwell of the Medical School, and Dean Miner of the Dental School are included in the first issue. Other features include a discussion of the mottling effect of fluorine on tooth enamel, several essays concernng dentistry and national prepardness, alumni news, and letters relating to the new plan for dental education at Harvard...