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...March, and high time-an epidemic of amebic dysentery, a filth-borne disease usually transmitted from excreta to the mouth, had plagued Creedmoor's inmates for three years. Six had died by the end of 1942 without action by the hospital's superintendent, Dr. George W. Mills, or the Department of Mental Hygiene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pity the Patients | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Holding to the Doctrine, Ocean-Wide." To most Tibetans he will be known, like his predecessors, as Gyamtso Rimpoche ("Glorious King"). So glorious is he supposed to be, in fact, that the monks of his palace-fortress, the Potala, will do a thriving business selling barley pills containing his excreta-a specific for all ills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kokonor Kid | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, father of four Moscowitzes, glared indignantly from his bench as he heard a chemist's report on the contents of Bonomo's candy: "rodents' hairs, rodent excreta, larvae, fragments of human hair, bits of paper, bits of mouse pelts and fragments of glass." Sample pieces contained as high as 205 insect fragments, 204 mouse hairs. The Moscowitz sentence: $600 fine (legal maximum) and three years on probation for the filth purveyor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Filthy Goodies | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...models. If the statement of the producers is true that salacious motion pictures do attract the public, isn't it the fault of the churches in not stiffening the adolescent minds to automatically reject such stuff in boredom in the same way that we automatically ignore the excreta canis in our walks down the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1934 | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...Experiment Station, Syracuse, N. Y. Mouse Man Hatt's brief for mice: They till the soil with their burrowings, are especially helpful in wet lowlands when their tunnels act as drains. Like the earthworm they bring subsoil to the surface, carry vegetable matter underground to enrich the soil. Excreta and dead mice are good fertilizers. the mouse furnishes carnivorous animals with a handy dinner. If the mouse supply were depleted, birds of prey, predatory mammals and reptiles would be forced to resort to other animals, might invade the farmers' stock yards more than they do now. Mice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Mouse Monograph | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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