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...Gerstenberger of Western Reserve presented to members of the American Medical Association last week. He reminded them of the shock ing but well-known fact that thousands of U.S. children are still weak, potbellied and spindly, because many mothers do not know enough to give their babies a daily teaspoon of vitamin-D-rich cod-liver oil or halibut-liver oil as a sunshine substitute in the dark winter months. And because many children refuse to take the nasty stuff...
...Paris, Serge Lifar, director of the Paris Opera Ballet, whose "music-less" ballet Icarus created a teaspoon stir in the art world five years ago, revealed that Nazi Field Marshal Hermann Goring had invited him to stage a production in Berlin...
...requested the recipe for Yorkshire pudding. Following is the way to make it. However, we make it in an electric oven. Experiments will have to be made to suit local conditions. Make a batter of 2 well-beaten eggs, 1 cup of milk, 1¼ cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of cold water. Mix well. Pour fat from roast into pudding pan, placing pan back in oven about four inches below upper element turned low. When fat is sizzling hot, pour batter in quickly and return to same position in oven. In ten or fifteen minutes...
...last week's Lancet Dr. Meulengracht revealed the answer to this medical mystery. The patient was a "hypochondriac," he said, "and obsessed by his evacuations." Every morning for 35 years he had taken one teaspoon of Carlsbad salts as a laxative. Carlsbad salts "are mainly composed of sodium sulfate and sodium bicarbonate, and presumably a certain amount of calcium of the food was transformed in the intestine into insoluble calcium sulfate which was then evacuated." The result was "a calcium deficiency of the skeletal system." When the patient was deprived of Carlsbad salts his disease was checked. Although still...
...opossum, is the lowest marsupial of all. Its young, born after a gestation of about 13 days, are only one-half inch long at birth, without fully-developed hind legs, sans eyes, sans ears or reflexes. A litter of 18 weighs about 1/15 oz., fits easily into an ordinary teaspoon (see cut). Because the opossum is born at such an early stage in its development it makes glad the hearts of embryologists...