Word: garlic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Health Stations the nursing mothers come. They are given a minute physical examination to make certain that no child contracts disease from them. Their diet is inquired into, because certain products (like garlic) in the nurse's food would make the milk unpleasant. If all is well, a certain amount of milk is taken from their breasts, an amount carefully regulated so that the natural child will not be starved. Some mothers yield only 3 to 4 ounces* a day. Others give 15 to 20 ounces. The average output approximates 10 ounces a day. For this milk the nurse...
...this irreverent age of the insubordinate younger generation, the heroic example of one Edda, daughter of Mussolini who would not stir her little toe without her father's consent, smells sweeter than garlic in this naughty world. To complete the incident of her temptation, picture now one Hispano-Suiza whining to be thrown into high gear, an overpoweringly handsome member of the Black Hand or perhaps the Black Shirt Club, and a glorious Italian moon, that is as glorious a moon as moons in Italy may be. But Edda was not seduced by the promise of a wild ride behind...
...cancer and other diseases. It occurred to the publishers of The Daily Mail (newspaper with the largest circulation in England) to investigate this nostrum, and they began a campaign of exposure against it. Yadil turned out to be essentially a 1% solution of formaldehyde, flavored with oil of garlic. The Daily Mail was aided in its exposure by Sir William Pope, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge. Threats of suits for libel and injunctions have not deterred The Daily Mail from continuing its exposure...
Drivers that bathe regularly, do not eat garlic...
...from the streets of Shantung. In its place came the pedicab-a rickshaw with a bicycle attachment. In order that this "improved" form of rickshaw transit shall in every way be superior to the old, the pedicab company has provided that the driver must bathe regularly, must not eat garlic, must wear a uniform...