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Ergot is a rust on the heads of rye. Ergot extract is widely used in obstetrics, to cause contraction of the uterus and control uterine bleeding. The physiological action of the extract is not precise, a fault of many drugs of vegetable origin. Their composition is complex and variable. Hence physicians lately have been adopting more controllable products. In obstetrics, pituitary solutions refined from the pituitary glands >of animals are supplanting ergot. But great quantities of fluid extract of ergot are still used. The raw material reaches the U. S. from Russia (and Poland) and Spain (and Portugal...
...peasants are learning a painful caution about black bread. It is made of rye. Russian rye is subject to ergot rust. Sometimes only one or two grains of the rye head are affected. The ergot is useful in obstetrics. In Russia, ergot occasionally is ground in with the rye flour, inadvertently causes abortions, gangrene...
...Russian ballet. He has played roles in Russian, Polish, French, German, English, Yiddish. Son Adolph managed George Jessel's Jazz Singer. Son Irving has appeared in minor Broadway parts, Son Jack in The Front Page. The youngest son, Luther, played this season in Street Scene and Red Rust. The only married daughter, Frances, was graduated from the American Academy of Arts, has toured with Resurrection and Eyes of Youth. Daughter Julia appeared with Actor David Warfield in The Merchant of Venice, Daughter Stella in The World We Live In. Daughter Celia alone has confined her work to the Yiddish...
...Shepherdstown, W. Va., Sue Lernon attached U. S. flags to the tops of her cedar trees to prevent state agents, proceeding against "cedar rust," from chopping them down...
...RUST-Soviet problems made dramatically exciting...