Word: soma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston Beriberi. In Boston Drs. Soma Weiss & Robert W. Wilkins found numerous "alcoholics, diabetics, food cranks and pregnant women" who suffered from "rapid heart rate, enlarged heart, shortness of breath, attacks of asthma." Their skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...
...worship of the personified powers of nature so beautifully expressed and faithfully followed. The sun, the mon are as dancing girls, only less fickle of heart. Ushas (the dawn) holds the key to the treasures of light and levies the toll of age. Among the prayers of the magic Soma plant worship the following is perhaps the best known...
...Where there is eternal light, in the world sun is placed, in that immortal world place me, O Soma...
...happy Vagabond has drunk of the magic Soma today and is off to hear more about it and the "Rig Veda" from Professor Clark at 11 in Harvard...
...Golden Rule was: "Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else." Wisdom came straight from the horse's mouth . . . straight from the mouth of Ford himself: "Ford's in his flivver. All's well with the world." When you were out of sorts you got drunk on a soma tablet; if you were a woman, and the condition persisted, you took a Pregnancy' Substitute Treatment. Sometimes you went to Solidarity Service, made the Sign of the T, sang hymns...