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...savage coastal jungles there are many wild rubber trees. In the remote mountains and inland plains grows the cinchona tree (quinine); there grow also fique, pita and malba, all tough fibrous plants. With Colombia's aid the U.S. may replace some of the rubber, quinine and hemp lost to the United Nations in the Far East...
Filariasis, another parasite disease, affecting as much as 98% of the population in the highland slopes of Guatemala. The filariae, which are carried by coffee flies, sometimes produce bright green nodules as large as walnuts on the scalp; these fibrous nodes must be dug out by surgery. Another type of filaria, mosquito-borne, is widely prevalent in the West Indies, causes elephantiasis, grotesque swelling of the arms, legs, buttocks, sexual organs. No effective ways have yet been found of treating this ailment...
...There is no exact knowledge of the action of alcohol on the liver." Cirrhosis (fibrous hardening) of the liver is a very rare disease, somewhat more common in drunkards than in teetotalers. But no one knows what causes...
...incomplete transparency and fibrous texture of his negatives gave all his prints a slightly fuzzy look. Retouching and darkroom development tricks were unknown. But despite all these drawbacks, Hill created pictures that rivaled the finest mezzotints, made cravats, lace collars and deep-lined faces shimmer before shadowy backgrounds in a variety of contrasted tones that rouse the envy of photographers whose film today is 100,000 times as sensitive...
...freight-rate counselor, he found himself vice president of Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. One of its by-products was a rigid insulating board called Insulite. Dahlberg, several M. & 0. associates and Insulite's inventor, one Carl Muench, next devised a similar board made out of bagasse, the fibrous residue of chewed-up sugarcane, named it Celotex and began making it commercially in 1921. By 1929 annual sales of their brown insulating board had reached $1,479,000 and President Dahlberg was rich...