Word: tonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soft Drinks. Three beverage-bottling companies last week agreed to unite: Carl H. Schultz Corp. (70-year-old table & mineral water company), Schoneberger & Noble Inc. (Dr. Brown's Celery Tonic), Brownie Corp. (new "Brownie" chocolate drink). President E. C. McCullough of the holding company, American Beverage Corp., announced that these three are only the beginning of a nationwide soft-drink chain...
Will prove a needful tonic...
...reason why quinine is important is that it is a specific against malaria. It is useful also as a tonic, its bitterness causing the secretion of saliva and gastric juices. When quinine gets into the blood it causes beneficent sweating. It is a bactericide also, slightly stronger than the same strength of carbolic acid, yet not exceptionally powerful. Bacteria are low-grade vegetable organisms. The thing which causes malaria is animal?plasmodium malariae?introduced into the human blood stream by a breed of mosquito. Quinine in the blood kills the plasmodium in the blood...
...mother was sick all last winter, too (and is still abed). The journeys from Washington to Northampton, Mass., were wearing. When she reached Brule in June, Mrs. Coolidge was in a run-down state for which three months of fresh air and rest were a not superfluous dose of tonic...
...Tonic to voters who have gone often to the polls, sedative to voters who have never gone before, is a book, published last week, by Frank Richardson Kent, eminently readable political pundit of the Baltimore...