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Twelve years ago the nation's race tracks cracked down on the widespread practice of "hopping" horses; into limbo went the old standbys, heroin and cocaine, which mandatory saliva and urine tests showed up crystal clear. Inventive horsemen-and few are short on imagination-promptly began a painstaking search for a magic hop that would leave no telltale evidence. Stories and jokes about new nasal sprays and rectally-administered stimulants soon became standard race track shop talk...
...never feel really "well read" till I've digested what TIME has to say on the subject. You supply the saliva and digestive juices for the disconnected news items that would otherwise give us all mental indigestion...
...throat abscesses, White Laboratories have developed a greenish, minty chewing gum, containing 3¾ grains of sulfathiazole in each "tablet." According to last week's Apothecary, a patient who chews the gum for 30 minutes to an hour gets a high concentration of the drug in his saliva (70 milligrams per 100 cc. of saliva; the concentration used in the blood in acute pneumonia is only five to ten milligrams per 100 cc.). Although the concentration is high in the saliva, very little gets into the blood stream and "there is but slight possibility of any systematic toxicity...
...born in Burma. But Namkham, its people and dialects were new. And the hospital was filthy. "The floor was stained with blood and pus and medicine, and was so rotten you had to step carefully not to break through. . . . The walls were covered with large red splashes of the saliva of betel-nut chewers. All the window ledges were covered with nasal secreta which the patients blow on their fingers and then carefully wipe off on the nearest projection. . . . That night Marion and I broke down and sobbed in each other's arms...
...know how long I walked around the fighter admiring it and caressing its wicked-looking body . . . as if I were rolling old sherry around on my tongue. . . . Like a beautiful woman, it demanded constant attention." At last, with his plane's shark mouth "seeming to drip saliva," he went out for action...