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...Once gouty always gouty" is an old medical maxim, yet doctors believe that clean living and plenty of outdoor exercise can reduce attacks to mere demonstrations in force. Standard treatment, besides wrapping the throbbing foot in cotton wool, is a diet with plenty of water, and strangely enough, fat, especially fresh butter. Many doctors also rely on injections of colchicine (from the root of the autumn crocus) to relieve the agonizing pain, and cinchophen (a complicated synthetic acid) to promote uric acid elimination...
Middle Ear. Most common cause of dim hearing is middle-ear injury and scarring-caused in turn by violent nose-blowing, infection of the Eustachian tube or the heavy mastoid bone which bulges out behind the ear. Safest maxim for ear-picking children: "Nothing smaller than the elbow should ever be put into the ear." Mastoid infections occur most frequently in children under twelve, for their delicate membranes are not tough enough to withstand bacterial assault. Standard procedure for mastoid infections is surgical removal of wedges of the infected bone...
Behind every result there is a cause, and at Princeton--where this maxim also holds true--a questionnaire sent to 1,856 men brought striking answers to the paternal collapse. Princeton men sighed over their "inability to have more children" and their "limited financial means." For the first reason, Harvard has nothing but a raised eyebrow. For the second--that purest of emotions, pity. With a comforting arm around the Tiger's tweedy shoulders, we note with care that he earns $6,600 per year, higher than any other college average...
That the U. S. people in principle oppose third terms for their Presidents is a cliche so long accepted as to be a maxim, although it has never been tested by ballot. It now has a special meaning: a candidate for a second reelection, potential or declared, cannot be a good President in crisis; he may even use the crisis to forward his ambitions...
There, in his study of politics, he marked well one priceless maxim: always ask for more than you can get, then compromise for half. Thus he could appreciate last week Franklin Roosevelt's stratagem in asking absolute repeal of the Neutrality law and a return to the vague vagaries of international law, in order that a compromise on cash-and-carry would seem to anti-repeal forces like a victory...