Word: sperms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfume such as Chanel No. 5, not all the smells that waft up to the Great Nose are pleasant. To "fix" the perfume by uniting other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while others, for some unknown reason, will last...
...Clarence J. Gamble of Milton, Mass, was testing 70 commercial contraceptive jellies and creams when he remembered that common salt was reputed to be a good sperm-killer. Dr. Gamble tried it in the test tube and it worked. He combined it with several jellies and it still worked. Finally he hit upon rice flour as a cheap base material, widely available...
...Dubliner, Dr. Raymond G. Cross, offered suggestions which made some of his colleagues blink: 1) because overheating of the testicles reduces sperm production, tight-fitting underwear is bad-a kilt is just the thing; 2) a man whose sperm output is below par should eat onions, garlic, bananas, celery, parsley, honey, cheese and molasses, and drink stout; 3) before trying to bring about conception, such a husband should remain continent for ten days to six weeks...
...interesting to note in connection with your article on the herb, gromwell, that the scientific name Lithospermum officinale may well be translated "stone sperm." This would indicate that the taxonomist who tacked the name to the species was aware of its fertility-inhibiting properties...
...Questions. To cautious scientists, Dr. Sieve's report was a little too pat, his results too nearly perfect. In the first place, Dr. Sieve conceded that in experiments with mice he had had 60% failures. Next, he relied heavily on the theory that the ability of the male sperm to penetrate an ovum depends largely on the enzyme hyaluronidase, and argued that the hesperidin must counteract this enzyme. Actually, say physiologists, there is no proof that hyaluronidase is responsible for penetration of the ovum. Further, Dr. Sieve speculated that the hesperidin helps a layer of cells around the ovum...