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...biggest surprise of all, naturally, is "Harvey" himself. Harvey is the pooka, and the pooka is Harvey-he's the miracle that Elwood P. Dowd found leaning against a lamp post after a big night with the boys, and he quite thoroughly disturbs Elwood's sister, Vita, who thinks, but is not quite positive, that he is ruining her social reputation...
...because he was convinced that most remedies in-use were either "useless or harmful." On his blacklist: astringent, oily or silver-salt nose drops; fruit juices; laxatives; fresh air; alkaline drinks; fluids. The only remedies besides salt in which he sees any merit are sulfadiazine sprays, vaccines (sometimes), sun lamp treatments and sun baths...
Crux of the Chicago discovery is the use of ultraviolet rays strong enough to kill the germs but not strong enough to ruin their ability to create immunity when injected into a living body. To accomplish this, a special lamp had to be developed (details are being kept secret by the Office of Scientific Research and Development). Old-type ultraviolet lamps take so long to kill germs that they destroy immunizing power as well...
...would paint pants on her one day, paint them off the next. He gave his nude a musing, pastoral face and the rosy-brown, gently diffused flesh of warm-weather drowsiness. Against the barn's sober timbers, earth floor and haymow, she has the calm glow of a lamp in daylight...
...belongs in the tradition of the scientific seers, which includes Galileo watching the swing of a lamp in the Cathedral of Pisa and deducing from it the law of the pendulum, and Isaac Newton watching the fall of an apple and deducing from it the law of gravity. For thousands of years men looked at the cryptogamic mold called Penicillium notatum, but Dr. Fleming was the first to see its cryptic meaning. His discernment, restoring to science the creative vision which it has sometimes been held to lack, also restored health to millions of men living and unborn...