Word: tartaric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a sordid divorce from Baron Wrangel, Siri married Strindberg. He wrote furiously-learned history (Sweden's Relations to China and the Tartar Lands), a religious play (The Secret of the Guild), a novel (The Red Room) for which he was denounced as an atheist and a radical. In 1884 he briefly became a popular hero when he was brought to trial (and acquitted) for committing blasphemy in print. He once called Christianity a religion for "women, eunuchs, children and savages." When his four-year-old son asked him whether God could see in the dark, Strindberg answered...
...schistosomiasis, had collected the snails in Egypt's labyrinthine irrigation ditches. An expert in Egypt's ministry of public health, he deliberately caught the disease in 1944 during experiments to protect the U.S. against infestation by returning servicemen. The only effective cure for him was injections of tartar emetic, which left him nauseated for eight months...
Egyptians, who use their streams and ditches as drinking fountains, laundries, baths and latrines, dislike the tartar emetic cure because, despite months of discomfort, they can be reinfested in 20 minutes. Dr. Barlow is trying to kill the snails which carry the disease by putting copper sulphate in the water (a concentration strong enough to kill snails is still too weak to affect humans...
Overnight, Durocher the tartar became Durocher the martyr. Leo permitted himself a wan smile for photographers, spoke a sentiment for the press that he had seldom been able to utter before: "It's swell to know that some people are behind...
Preliminary laboratory tests, says Dr.Hyser, have shown a "tremendous" reduction in the number of bacteria in the mouth after the brushless cleaning. Other tests are still to be made, but he is convinced it will keep tartar from forming. It cleans along the gum line, where many cavities start, and between the teeth. About 200 samples of slightly different designs are now being used by other dentists and by Dr. Hyser's patients...