Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excerpts from his legal philosophy, set down in his books and lectures: "Property, like liberty, though immune under the Constitution from destruction, is not immune from legislation essential for the common good. . . . Nothing is stable. All is fluid and changeable. ... I was much troubled in spirit in my first years on the bench to find out how trackless was the ocean on which I had embarked. I sought for certainty. I have become reconciled to the uncertainty, because I have grown to see it is inevitable...
Last week's product is even more convenient. Heretofore it has been dangerous to inject liver extracts directly into the blood stream. The extracts behaved like protein poisons. By fiddling with the liver juices after a method which has been patented, Professors Sturgis & Isaacs developed an innocuous fluid. Once introduced into a vein it whips the blood into a fury of red cell reproduction. The fury lasts for four to six weeks, when another intravenous injection becomes necessary. That is more pleasant, anemics find, than swallowing hog stomachs once a day or eating beef liver at every meal...
...Smith, assistant professor of Neuropathology at the Medical School, told members of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases at its annual meeting in New York during the vacation that he had confirmed the belief that the meningitis germ, rather than the white cells in the spinal fluid, consumed sugar present in the fluid. He said that when meningitis is present, there follows a decrease in the sugar content, and when the patient is recovering there is a corresponding, increase...
...press are quite different from the subtle "institutional" advertisements of casket makers, cemeteries and crematories which appear in popular magazines. Some are outspoken : "This casket will be a wonderful seller. . . ." "The casket of the month- Rustless Zinc." . . . "Nature-Glo-Rivals Cosmetic Effect of Living Blood." . . . "William H. Doty! The Fluid Man." . . . Also there are classified advertisements. Sample...
...week shoved ahead two days the sailing date of the French Line ship that will carry him, 5. S. lie de France. Promptly in several hundred European hotels other passengers booked on the lie de France seized the usual ink-clogged pens, dipped them furiously into the familiar purple fluid, scratched and splattered torrents of protest...