Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irwin Gabriel Spiesman of Maywood, Ill., making a clean breast of it to 99 other experts in Atlantic City: "Rapid cooling of most cutaneous surfaces produces a reflex vasoconstriction [tightening of blood vessels] and ischemia [lack of blood] leading to lowered mucous membrane temperature of the upper respiratory tract...
Last week doctors hailed an old conqueror of the dread staphylococcus germ. Considered by some scientists a virus, by others an enzyme, this germ-eater is called bacteriophage. Strains of bacteriophage are found in the human intestinal tract, in urine, pus, blood and sewage. About 25 years ago, bacteriophage was first isolated by a British scientist from a dead germ colony. The mysterious substance that killed the bacteria was able to pass through a fine filter and infect other colonies. Some doctors soon dreamed of it as a universal panacea. (Sinclair Lewis dramatized this hope in his novel Arrowsmith.) Compared...
Ulcers. There are two main types of ulcers in the digestive tract: 1) those of the duodenum (pronounced du-oh-dee'-num); 2) those of the stomach. For both, a mild, milky diet and a calm, easy life may bring relief. Ulcers of the duodenum may be removed by a surgeon, but usually they return in worse form. Only consolation: duodenal ulcers practically never turn into cancer...
...Pardoning he needs, and thousands of pounds sterling into the bargain. The ending is technically happy but, like the treatment throughout, perceptibly tougher and more intelligent than such stories generally bother to be. Indeed Benjamin Blake turns out to be not merely an engaging adventure piece but an articulate tract against feudalism, both sexual and social...
Dreiser's tract is largely an attack on this felonious isle, this seat of tyrants, this England. He is also so fearfully wrought up over the present state of the U. S. that America is Worth Saving reads like the definitive burlesque of Upton Sinclair. Like Trumbo, Dreiser is just a good guy trying to revive the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Last fall, during the Presidential campaign, he announced his support of Earl Browder and the Communist Party platform...