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Trade Terminology. Most of the terms discussed are available in any dictionary or encyclopedia, but Authors Beckson (who teaches English at Fairleigh Dickinson University) and Ganz (who teaches the same at Rutgers) have chosen very lively illustrations for their literary zoology. To explain the IAMB(US), or basic "da DA," of English speech in prose or poetry, they have picked not a respectably well-worn Shakespearean line but A. E. Housman's absurdly memorable
Fresh v. Powdered. Dr. Niehans experimented (often on himself) with cell extracts from various organs and glands of several young animals, eventually hit on the unborn Iamb (from a ewe slaughtered just before it is due to deliver) as the best source for most purposes. To ensure a steady supply of fresh, uncontaminated material, he has a veterinarian choose the animals and supervise slaughtering. Of his $120 minimum fee for a single injection, most goes for the raw material, he says, leaving him $30. For aged or debilitated patients, and for doctors elsewhere who want to use the method, Rhein...