Word: proteins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virus a protein molecule. For lack of any better explanation doctors suppose that influenza, infantile paralysis and many another disease are caused by viruses, substances invisible to the most powerful microscopes. Because such viruses grow and pass diseases on from one creature to another, doctors suppose further that all viruses are living substances...
...causes of these outbreaks are vareid. Protein decomposition is probably the commonest cause. Meat and meat products of all kinds, fish, shellfish, milk and milk products, such as cream, ice cream, choose and all substances made with milk, such as pastry and pie fillings, may be the cause of the dirturbance. The food need not be spoiled, with disagreeable order and taste, yet may produce intestinal irritation...
...Recently the extensive use of arsenic sprays of apples, peas, green beans, spinach, cabbage and lettuce has resulted in wide-spread outbreaks of acute gastro-intestinal irritation. Cider has been a prominent source of acute upsets, due to arsenic residues. Arsenic produces almost exactly the same symptoms as decomposed protein...
...Antonio, Tex., who, in 1882, found a market for a few barrels of pecan meats he shipped East on a gamble. Today one out of every five nuts eaten in the U. S. is a pecan. Only peanuts and walnuts are more popular.* Peanuts contain the most protein, pecans the most...
...value to barley, from sawdust, which is mostly a waste product or burned as an inferior fuel in lumber mills. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which again can be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar can be converted into protein by treatment with yeast; into fat by feeding it to pigs. Dr. Bergius said last week that, "for the present," food-from-wood is being fed to animals; he avoided saying that if Germany gets into a tough war it will be fed to humans...