Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Food Industries this week Howard T. Greene, Wisconsin dairy manager, described a new method of packing cow's milk so that it keeps fresh much longer than usual. Instead of a paper cap in the bottle's mouth, a tight metal cap with gasket is used. Just before the cap is thrust home, live steam is introduced beneath it. This condenses in the bottle top, creating a partial vacuum. Packed in this way the milk keeps fresh for 48 hours at room temperature, six weeks in a refrigerator...
...controversial subject, Spirit Brandon is positive. He declares spirits may, if they are smart, abandon their memories of their last life and return to earth as a new personality in a new body. As developed by Astral scientists and practiced with the aid of seasoned Astral physicians, the simplest method involves merging any spirit with the body of an earthly infant of five to eight weeks. "The act," reports Spirit Brandon, "requires the physician to see, in his mind's eye, the spinal cord of both the child and the soul who is to incarnate. The physician can, with...
...nurses on call in an anteroom. Nevertheless mother's milk is often needed in a hurry for premature babies. Last week at the Mother's Milk Bureau of Manhattan's Children's Welfare Federation a group of medical men were shown a method of preserving human milk, an emulsion much less stable than cow's milk, for periods up to a year...
Developed by Dr. Paul W. Emerson, Harvard pediatrician, and Washington Platt of Borden Co., the method is freezing. The milk is drawn from the donors into sterile containers, poured into metal molds kept by dry-ice packing at -109°. In two minutes the milk is frozen solid. It is then sliced into wafers, packed in sterile bottles and stored at -15°. To prepare it for use nothing is necessary but thawing...
...dealing with the insane, it is sometimes necessary to resort to the Binet-Féré method of fascination by which, if it is successful, complete automatism is induced. The subject is asked to look fixedly at the operator's right eye, and the operator stares fixedly at the subject's left eye, at the same time grasping his hands firmly. In a little while the operator's eye appears to shine brilliantly and the patient's expression becomes vacant. Dr. Cannon finds certain defects in this procedure: "If the patient is refractory...