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...Piker & Cohn prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash out the patient's stomach, purge him with cascara and Epsom salts, feed him well. And three times daily the doctors alkalize the patient with potus imperialis, a drink of ½ oz. cream of tartar dissolved in 3 pints of water, sweetened and flavored with lemon peel. They never rouse a sleeping drunk "for any reason, medicinal or otherwise...
...18th National Pigeon Show, most important of the half dozen major pigeon fiestas held in the U. S. each year. First event of the show was nose drops. Because pigeons are susceptible to influenza, their owners dose them before big shows with cod-liver oil for prevention, Epsom salts if they develop sniffles. Before going to Peoria most of the entrants had been given warm baths, rinsed, flown in the sun to dry. For weeks their owners had trained them to handle tamely. When the judging started last week, the pigeons were taken out of their coops, examined minutely...
...Kentucky Derby most nearly approaches the Epsom Derby as a spectacle, the Belmont Stakes, run at 1½miles and, judged by the blood lines of its winners, the most aristocratic U. S. race, most nearly approaches it as a test of three-year-olds. Because all the hard-luck horses who were sufficiently fit to function were entered in it, last week's Belmont drew a record crowd of 35,000. Bookmakers made Brevity favorite...
...Everybody said Mahmoud would not stay the course, but by judicious handling I made him stay." This statement was made last week not by Jockey Charles Smirke, who had just ridden Mahmoud to victory in the Derby at Epsom Downs, England, but by the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's daughter, Fatima: Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan, Mahmoud's haunchy, paunchy brown-skinned owner, who was still waving his silk hat to show his enthusiasm. To balance his excited hyperbole the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems...
...have a baby. Lapsing into a dreamy state, the mother knows what is going on but feels little, gives no wilful assistance to Nature. In 1923 Dr. James Taylor Gwathmey of Manhattan proposed another combination of drugs for "synergistic anesthesia." He produced drowsiness and anesthesia by injecting morphine and epsom salts into the mother's muscles, quinine, alcohol and ether in olive oil into the rectum...