Word: roots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That is the sort of thing famed Hormone-Maker Russell Earl Marker of Penn State expected to see splashed all over the papers last week. Reason: he had just told chemists about his new, cheap, artificial production of three powerful sex hormones (testosterone, progesterone and desoxy-corticosterone), from sarsaparilla root compounds. A boon to doctors, Professor Marker's synthetic hormones will cost far less than natural sheep and cow products. Professor Marker warned Penn State's publicity department to warn the press not to sensationalize his sarsaparilla. Worried Penn State promptly sent out the following "confidential" release...
...source material from which the synthetic hormones have been prepared is derived from the lowly sarsaparilla root found in Mexico. It is called sarsasa-pogenin. (CAUTION: Please note that the source material is derived from the lowly sarsaparilla root. . . . The hormones themselves...
...root itself has no beneficial qualities in the treatment of illness. More recently sarsaparilla has found a major role as a flavoring for soft drinks. (CAUTION: But please do not assume that the hormones are derived from a bottle of soda...
...merely a case of first year growing pains that will be gone next year; the root of the trouble lies in Washington where there are overwhelming burdens placed on the C. A. A. from all over the country. The delay encountered in ferreting out the fifty successful aspirants was unfortunate but excusable, considering the exacting requirements necessary for such a course. But subsequent snags have not been so pardonable. The worst instance has been the delay of six whole weeks in actual fight instruction that occurred while the list of chosen men, sent to Washington for approval, lay buried...
...clean living and plenty of outdoor exercise can reduce attacks to mere demonstrations in force. Standard treatment, besides wrapping the throbbing foot in cotton wool, is a diet with plenty of water, and strangely enough, fat, especially fresh butter. Many doctors also rely on injections of colchicine (from the root of the autumn crocus) to relieve the agonizing pain, and cinchophen (a complicated synthetic acid) to promote uric acid elimination...