Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...19th Century a Russian named Iwanowski demonstrated the existence of an infectious something smaller than bacteria by passing a solution from diseased tobacco plants through a Chamberland filter. In time it was found that many animal and human diseases were also due to such viruses: rabies, distemper, foot-and-mouth disease, encephalitis, poliomyelitis, measles, yellow fever, certain tumors, common colds. At Princeton Dr. Stanley grew acres of tobacco plants, infected them with the disease known as tobacco mosaic, ground up their wizened leaves, extracted their juices. This liquid was highly infectious to normal plants. But the deadly principle could...
...Disappointment of the show was much-publicized Lady Wright of Durley, one of the most famed horsewomen of Europe, who shipped to the U. S. a string of four horses trained by lady trainers, and handled by lady grooms. Lady Wright had fair cause to look down-in-the-mouth after winning only one fourth-place white ribbon in five days of competition...
...cooperation with the School of Public Health the Sanitary Engineering Department has carried out numerous researches in the study of air-borne infection. These investigations have considered the infective range of droplets expelled from the nose and mouth, and engineering means for preventing the spread of infection...
...time Hungarian postmaster general, as thoroughly Hungarian as paprika, this Wartime Hungarian army medical officer started, after the Armistice, to learn what happens to food in the human body. He was particularly interested in the progress of carbohydrates (starches and sugars). These enter the mouth, change into a variety of transient substances, nourish every cell in the body, leave the body with the breath as simple carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) gas and water (H 2 O) vapor...
...matter of fact," says Dr. Hooton, "if I were asked in what occupations the United States indubitably leads the world, I should reply without hesitation, dentistry and plumbing." Yet in the mouth of civilized man he finds a chamber of horrors which shows perfectly well which way human evolution is going. Caries, pyorrhea and malocclusion (failure of upper and lower teeth to engage properly) are rare among savages-"at least until the savage comes in contact with civilization, missionaries, canned foods, groceries and candy.... In my opinion there is one and only one course of action which will check...