Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exploited as a cure for 26 specific diseases of the widest pos- sible range, as well as for "all diseases that begin with fever-all inflammations -all catarrh-all contagious diseases- all the results of impure or poisoned blood." The public-and Mr. Smith-were deprived of this omnipotent fluid by the Pure Food and Drug...
...Baltimore, a professor of Physics showed his class of Johns Hopkins students liquid air, took some in his mouth, blew out a jet of steam. The low temperature of the fluid, explained, caused it to evaporate in his mouth. Would any one else like to try the experiment? One Joseph Phillips, a sceptical sophomore, stepped to the platform. Instead of merely holding the liquified gases in his mouth, he raised high the beaker, swallowed at a gulp. In- stantly, he began to gasp, to gag, strangle. He was in grave danger, everyone saw, of being blasted by the expanding vapor...
...Bulgaria. Recently Prof. Leo F. Rettger of Yale announced that he had experimented with an allied form of the Bacillus Acidophilus and demonstrated that, induced to breed in great quantities, it expells all harmful bacteria by its harmless self. Thus, puckering their mouths to imbibe the acidated lacteal fluid of bovines, young people, old people, sexa-and even octogenarians may continue to "ripe and ripe." Prof. Rettger also hinted that with these bacilli would be developed a typhoid cure...
...flask holding six fluid...
Warily, Dr. Leonard administered some of this fluid to a rabbit. The small creature lived. He took. some himself, survived. His attendants each swallowed their doses, were not harmed. Then the antiseptic was administered in some cases of kidney disease in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Within 48 hours, these cases were cured totally and, to all appearances, permanently. A committee of 15 learned gentlemen from the National Research Council was appointed to conduct further investigation...