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...London has 8,000 miles of water mains, and every big main has been broken at some time or other, there has been no typhoid fever. Reason: large quantities of chlorine were immediately poured into the water. There has been, confessed Sir Wilson, a good deal of paratyphoid, a milder cousin of typhoid. This was traced to unclean bakeshops...
...reminded us of nothing so much as a slightly milder "Hellzapoppin" with a plot tagging along behind. Like the Olsen and Johnson show, it presumably will draw sophisticated snubs from the critics while packing the mobs in by droves. It has political satire, murder mystery, and slapstick in about equal portions, and there's a good chance that you'll be sitting near one of the cast if you're in the orchestra. The plot involves a couple of violent deaths which only add to the fun, and the leading character is Tom Dewey minus mustache...
...Milder allergies to foods, pollens, textiles, animal hairs, etc. are produced the same way. Food allergies are often acquired by digestive upsets which allow proteins to get into the blood instead of being broken down in the digestive tract. Some people are born with food allergies, acquired from proteins in the maternal blood during pregnancy...
...treating milder allergies, the first step is to find out what a patient is allergic to, by means of skin tests which result in small reactions to the offending substance. If it is a food or something similar, all the patient has to do is avoid it. If it is a wind-borne pollen that cannot be escaped, the patient may try "desensitization" treatment, which involves injecting very small quantities of the allergenic protein. How or why desensitization works is unknown. The benefits of desensitization are temporary and partial, though the degree of relief may seem wonderful to a sufferer...
Kenneth Roberts has a legendary temper, on which he practices great self-control. But self-control in his case is said to be a brief, turkey-red moment between the rush of blood to his face and an outburst that begins (in milder cases) with goddam, ends (several minutes later) in total verbal annihilation. Fellow authors like Booth Tarkington, Ben Ames Williams, Samuel Blythe have publicized these tantrums with such glee that the suspicion has grown that Roberts rages are also literary, less an adrenalin effusion than a character signature like Wotan's motif in the Nibelungen Ring...