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...upon these ferments and the presence and character of the food material in the bowel. Activity of the liver, the chemical engine of the body, and the secretion of bile is greatly influenced by the amount and the variety of ingested food. Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid diet is really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus. If lack of the food to which the upper bowel is accustomed continues for more than a very few hours, those species of bacteria normally resident in the colon and cecum...
...France in huge daily shipments, which have depleted that country's gold stocks by $200,000,000 in the past fortnight, by about $500,000,000 in the past year. These sums did not represent withdrawals of foreign balances in French banks. That type of skittish liquid capital has long since sought other havens, notably London and Manhattan. French capitalists themselves were converting their wealth into gold, sending it out of the land before the new Chamber of Deputies with its heavy Leftist majority assembles next month (TIME...
Eventually the princess is restored to her father, but only after she has been rescued by Uncle Stanley, who is emboldened by several gallons of gypsy wine, absorbed inadvertently while he was bottling the liquid by a siphoning process. Incidentally, this bottling scene ranks as possibly the funniest we've yet encountered; and for an effective drug to ease you back to work after the pleasures of vacation, we can recommend nothing better...
...Hamburger doubts the efficacy of vaccines to prevent colds. He also points out that liquid vaseline placed in the nostrils of sniffling infants may drip into their lungs and cause pneumonia, warns against all mentholated preparations for infants' colds because the menthol may cause spasms in the infants' throats and choke them. To alleviate colds Dr. Hamburger advises rest in bed and a simple prescription equivalent of which is an aspirin tablet with a cup of weak coffee every four hours and a glass of water in between.* Nonetheless, he concludes: "More can be done specifically for pernicious...
...natural that Senator Long's feelings should be wounded at the imputation that she might console herself so soon after the martyrdom of her husband. It was no less natural for the Hearst Press to report such a rumor about the liquid-eyed lady from Louisiana. For years her dowdy colleague, Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, has sat alone and relatively neglected in the Senate. Now Senators leaving the floor frequently pause to pass the time of day with Mrs. Long. Senators...