Word: gelatine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...servicemen and groups of neurotics about to be discharged which foods they disliked, which ones they would actually refuse to eat. His discovery: while the normal men declared themselves willing to eat even the foods they disliked, the neurotics recoiled with tight-clamped jaws from such things as "quivering" gelatin, "slimy" oysters, oatmeal ("It reminds me of vomit...
...been neglected so long that it is as good as new. Combined with evocative sets and appropriate performance (by Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys and others), and admirably terse, it provides a tinnily entertaining, cinematically energetic antidote to the two-hour doses of pure unflavored gelatin now alarmingly on the increase. Significantly, it was made quickly on very little money, as pictures go, and for a humble but reliable audience-the general equivalent of the audience which reads pulp magazines. Its overall cost was $150,000. It was shot in 21 days. The screen play was slapped together...
...Penicillin lozenges, made of penicillin and gelatin, will clear up trench mouth in a day, tonsillitis in two days, say Britain's Drs. Alexander B. MacGregor and David A. Long. Lozenges have a "very slightly bitter taste" but one patient ate ten in five minutes...
...Archives of Internal Medicine they told how they stir up a witches' broth containing all the essential amino acids (ammonia-containing compounds from which proteins are built), dextrose sugar, salt, gelatin, emulsified cottonseed or corn oil, water. This brew is fed in varying amounts, depending on how many calories are needed. Vitamins are given separately. Though some patients claim the stuff disagrees with them, it is actually so digestible that patients can be fed at night without waking them up. (The stomach tube stays in place day & night...
Research to find a substitute for human plasma does not stop with beef blood. Some substitutes that work: coconut milk, casein, isinglass (fish gelatin), pectin. But doctors still reserve their real enthusiasm for safe human plasma or human serum albumin...