Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disease. Xenophon, ancient Greek general, noted that many of his men had sore mouths and foul breaths. World War troops had the same. Dr. H. Jean Vincent discovered the cause long before the War when he was a French army surgeon with Colonial troops in Africa. Although Dr. Hugo Karl Plaut of Hamburg two years earlier (in 1894) reported the same cause, credit for discovery goes to Dr. Vincent. The disease is called variously Vincent's angina, trench mouth, ulcerated stomatitis, necrotic gingivitis. Two germs, which may be variant forms of the same microorganism, are always associated with trench...
...object of international law is to make the rights of nations certain, not to unsettle them; if a wrong has been done to correct it at once, not to leave it as a festering sore for any nation to probe thereafter, or as an excuse for action that would otherwise be without justification. One of the worst international evils is the existence of indefinite claims that can be used on convenient occasions. Our government will not go to war, and unless under great provocation will not suspend commercial intercourse, as Japan knows full well; but while using whatever pacific pressure...
...friend of the head pharmacist of the U. S. had a sore foot. He bought some bichloride of mercury tablets for an antiseptic footwash. Several days later he took several "Aspirin" tablets, died poisoned by the deadly bichloride. Therefore last week U. S. manufacturing druggists and editors of pharmaceutical journals had on their desks copies of a sharp letter from Dr. Ernest Fullerton Cook, chairman of the revision committee of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and the dead man's friend. Dr. Cook's letter reminded every one that it was just to prevent such accidents that the Pharmacopoeia...
...mass hysterias on small provocation; they continually suppose themselves on the verge either of calamity or salvation; everything is exaggerated to a panacea or a menace, so much so that I could not tell, reading the advertising, which was believed the greater peril to the republic: Russian communism or sore gums. In short, the Americans are essentially unbusinesslike, artists and imaginers in soul. So much the better for them, I like them for it; but it would never do to tell them...
...Rotten apples used as a poultice is an old Lincolnshire remedy for sore eyes is still used in some villages...