Word: lactic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flavors of sweat, the human body is a regular soda fountain-the sweat of the brow is strong in uric acid, the sweat of the hands is strong in chloride (salt), the sweat of the thigh is strong in lactic acid. These pungent facts are disclosed in a report by Drs. Olaf Mickelson and Ancel Keys of the University of Minnesota in the Journal of Biological Chemistry...
...University of Wisconsin rabbit sperm was treated with sodium bicarbonate or lactic acid just before it was used for artificial insemination. Again there was no disturbance of the normal ratio of the sexes, but the lactic acid treatment greatly reduced fertility...
...years a technique for determining sex at the time of conception has been plugged by the New York Daily News (TIME, Dec. 23, 1940). The News advocates preliminary douching with bicarbonate of soda to get males, with lactic acid to get females. Last month this theory was lambasted by the Journal of Heredity, which called it "delightfully cockeyed but potentially dangerous...
Effective treatment for celiaca is skimmed lactic-acid milk and plenty of ripe bananas, and injections of pancreatic extract. But thanks to submarines, the U.S. has few bananas, and without fresh or powdered bananas celiacous children may develop the disease all over again, losing, in a few days, all the weight they have gained over a period of months...
...From milk. Chemist Paul D. Watson of the Department of Agriculture has developed a lacquer excellently suited to cans of evaporated and condensed milk (largest canned food) and for large milk-shipping cans. It is made of lactic acid (from fermented whey) plus small amounts of vegetable...