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...specialists argued the persistence of onion and garlic odor on the breath was due to: 1) the essential, odorous oil of such vegetables passing into the blood stream during digestion, being aerated from the blood into the lungs, and then being expired; 2) the essential oil appearing in the saliva by secretion from the blood passing through the salivary glands; 3) the odor passing up into the mouth from the stomach during digestion...
...ladies' bands am I, but unless the female method of tone production tillers radically from that of the male it seems almost libelous to attribute drooling to their horn players (TIME, March 25 ). Closer observation would show you that it is condensed moisture from the breath rather than saliva which accumulates within the tubing of brass instruments. As for ascribing the difficulty of French horn playing to the necessity of passing ' breath "evenly through some 16 feet of tubing, a matter of sustaining tone, a more fundamental problem is that of even starting the designated tone owing...
Professor Fairhall was doubly confident of his information. He had soaked squares of the silk in body secretions (perspiration, saliva, urine) and in other fluids with which silk garments might touch (distilled water, tap water, salt water). None of the lead in the silk dissolved...
...examination of horses. Before each race is run the stewards draw by lot the number of one entry, keep it secret until the finish. Then that horse, no matter how he finished, is led to a special stall ("dope-box") just off the track where a chemist tests his saliva for drugs...
Nicotine, when a person first begins to smoke, makes his touch unsteady and inhibits the flow of saliva, observed Cornell University's Dr. Andrew Leon Winsor. But after the 25th cigaret the effects on saliva cease. But a smoker's hand is never so steady as a non-smoker...