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...first place, said Chemist Corwin, little is known about the action of true chlorophyll in the human body, and most of the technical literature on the subject is full of myths. Anyhow, the material used by manufacturers of green pills, chewing gum, toothpaste and mouthwash is not natural chlorophyll: it has been altered chemically and sometimes contains copper. Much of it is labeled "copper chlorophyllin," and even this is a misnomer, said Corwin, because a "phyllin" is a magnesium derivative; when copper replaces the magnesium, it's something else again...
...extremely small gravy mark on my own . . . From then on I never dared appear at a troop meeting without first giving my shoes such a gloss that they could have stood sentry-go at Buckingham Palace ... I went further. I began slathering myself with after-shave lotion, gargling with mouthwash, and even polishing my belt buckle before troop meetings...
...chlorophyll is already providing a bonanza for many other industries. Retail counters are full of chlorophyll products that promise to banish halitosis and B.O. and help heal cuts. On the market are twenty-nine different brands of deodorizing lozenges and tablets, seven brands of chewing gum, four brands of mouthwash, one chlorophyll-impregnated toilet paper, and a cigarette with chlorophyll to take away a smoker's "bad breath" even while he is smoking...
...release volatile oils for hours afterwards. When his college girls took onion juice, which left no particles, chlorophyll greatly reduced the breath odor and sometimes abolished it. The only effective treatment for onion eaters, Dr. Westcott concluded, was to clean the mouth thoroughly and then use a chlorophyll mouthwash or suck a chlorophyll tablet. He found that ordinary bad breath, whether from food, drink, tobacco or an upset stomach, was easily controlled by chlorophyll...
...notes crammed into pigeonholes; a clutter of zoo-odd vials and miscellaneous containers, a piece of vulcanized rubber, scraps of tinfoil, scraps of old cigars, packets of seeds, two biographies of Edison, a collection of smoking-room stories, a bottle of soda mints, a partly used bottle of mouthwash, a plug of chewing tobacco...