Word: stomachics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of all this, or very likely because of it, he has transcribed an altogether delightful account of this picturesque ramble. He insists, through blithe pages sprinkled with woodcuts and quiet humor, on sharing with his reader everything from the smell of quaint, stagecoachy old inns to a "stomach-ache acquired delightfully on Devon strawberries...
...medical science to historical research has already given birth to one fascinating volume. The maladies of Henry VIII, however, have little but antiquarian interest. A more fertile field for investigation offers itself in--contemporary history. If it is true that Napolean lost the battle of Waterloo because, of a stomach-ache it can doubtless be proved that Hindenburg was suffering heart-burns when his famous line was smashed. And in American political life things have come to such a pass that the old stock alibis are quite ineffective; but by replacing them with pleas of wholesale dyspepsia and accounts...
...have taught the people of Chicago to stomach our ware. The gum-chewers of Manhattan have gobbled it up. It must be popular stuff. It's too bad we can't sell it to the whole country. But it would cost a terrible lot of money to start a newspaper in every city. Why not put our stuff into a magazine and sell it everywhere...
Police have a theory that in catching a crab, the handle of the our came back and hit Proctor in the stomach. In that event, they claimed he might have slumped forward, tipping the boat and falling out. His efforts to catch his breath would result in his lungs filling with water, and although he might be a good swimmer, rendered him incapable of saving himself. It was exceedingly misty Monday afternoon, and improbable that there were any other boats in the vicinity...
...transmits all the rays of the sunlight, including the ultraviolet and infrared, which are cut out by ordinary glass. Owing to this property it is expected to be of great value to medicine. By it diseased areas of the throat, nose, ears, stomach, hitherto inaccessible cavities, may be subjected to the action of these germicidal rays, as well as to heat. A sun-room made of fused quartz panes would have the same effect as sunlight in the open air. A quartz lamp will give a healthy sunburn...