Word: halibut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Medical Association last week. He reminded them of the shock ing but well-known fact that thousands of U.S. children are still weak, potbellied and spindly, because many mothers do not know enough to give their babies a daily teaspoon of vitamin-D-rich cod-liver oil or halibut-liver oil as a sunshine substitute in the dark winter months. And because many children refuse to take the nasty stuff...
...Shipments from Canada, Britain and Japan have been greatly curtailed. The supply of halibut liver oil, which comes from the northern Pacific Coast, is more plentiful...
...pneumonia can be caused by: 1) constant use of oily nose drops; 2) nightly doses of mineral oil for constipation; 3) forced feedings of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil to rebellious children. Often the oil slides down the throat into the lungs, where it clogs up air sacs, inflames delicate tissues, forms abscesses and scars. Victims develop a hacking cough, run a low fever. Lipid or oil pneumonia is difficult to diagnose, for few physicians know much about it, and different oils cause different symptoms. In old people oil pneumonia is sometimes mistaken for cancer of the lung. Pneumonia...