Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guide lists 20 common, edible jungle plants and tells how to prepare them. General rules: eat nothing bitter unless you know what it is; avoid plants with a milky sap. In emergencies only, eat raw termites with the wings off or boiled, dried or fried beetle grubs. Eat anything the monkeys eat. Eat the monkeys...
...with a bright red rash, recently treated in Boston City Hospital,* was a curious and fascinating case to many doctors - especially cancer researchers. He was apparently the first clinical case of egg-white disease, an ailment previously produced only in laboratories by feeding experimental subjects an inordinate amount of raw egg white (or a chemical extracted from it, avidin...
...year-old patient while still in his teens had learned to love a raw egg or two in a glass of wine, had lately lived on little else. His rate of consumption: one to four quarts of wine a day, two to six dozen eggs a week. To be certain of enough fresh eggs, he left his family a few years ago to start a chicken farm. The strange eczema-like rash, which had grown redder and flakier for five years, soon faded on hospital diet, but the patient was still sick with other ailments unconnected with egg white...
...cancer was particularly interesting because one of the hottest theories in cancer research is the possible effect of raw egg white on the cancers. Egg white's avidin links up with biotin, part of the vitamin B complex essential for growth of both normal and cancerous tissues. Theory is that large amounts of avidin might "freeze" enough blood biotin to starve a cancer, possibly stop its growth...
...economic life of the new world order. Fortunately, in respect to economic opportunity this prospect is held out to Germany in Point Four of the Atlantic Charter: ". . . . the enjoyment by all States, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity...