Word: gentian
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...Significance of these and the other nineteen pieces that the small book encloses are in some way explained by the quotations that furnish its title: from Noah Webster, " '. . .the yellow gentian which has a very bitter taste' " and from The New Botany, "'... flowers, pushing through from some inner plane of being, and with such energy that they are visible to man. Especially the blue gentian.' " Even in the bitterest of Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact...
SPANISH BAYONET?Stephen Vincent Benet?Doran ($2). It is characteristic of Author Benet that the pre-Revolutionary Floridian of his tale is an indigo-planter and breeder of cochineal bugs, not a farmer of yams or tobacco; that his name is Gentian, not Brown or Black; that he is not so much a retired army surgeon with impeccable manners and exquisite vintages, as a mage of the sinister arts, whose oval study is done in blue-and-gold leather with a star-powdered dome and a secret moonwindow. It is characteristic that Dr. Gentian's wife is a burned...
...plot, Dr. Gentian nurses a nice insanity to be King of the Floridas, while the passion of his daughter is to be a queen, preferably piratical, with the misbegotten brute who appeals to her inherited taste for coarse-grained erotics. When the hero, young Andrew Beard of New York, arrives on business for his rich father, he is snaffled between plan and counterplan of father and daughter, escaping not without scars on heart and body. In the distances are heard the splashing of tea-chests in Boston harbor, the rattle of musketry at Lexington...
...Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, under the leadership of Dr. Hugh H. Young, investigations are being made as to the effects of newly discovered chemicals in the treatment of infections. Recently Dr. Young announced the treatment of generalized infections by the injection into the blood of mercurochrome-220 soluble and of gentian violet. The results were considered extraordinary since the treatments were used only in severe cases. It was the belief of the observers that the gentian violet had a selective action against infections with staphylococci. The gentian violet is a dye substance and, when injected into the blood, causes the patient...