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...Most feared weapons were bomb fragments (36%), trench mortars (22%), artillery shells...
...Germans fought well. Ordered to hold the city and its suburbs at any cost, they sprinkled the fields with pillboxes, fortified every house, battled with bayonets, knives, trench shovels. A blinding dust storm raged over the city. Sweating and cursing, the men fought and died by the thousands in hand combat, in shattered buildings, in tanks and self-propelled guns set afire by "Molotov cocktails...
Nearly everybody in the U.S. harbors organisms of trench mouth, may develop the disease if his resistance gets too low from poor nutrition or a bender. Then a bacillus and a spirochete (and sometimes other mouth germs) work together to produce tender, bleeding gums (medical name: Vincent's stomatitis) or throat and tonsil infections (medical name: Vincent's angina). Mouthwashing with hydrogen peroxide is one of the commonest treatments. But treatment usually goes on & on in serious cases...
Last week two doctors claimed that they have developed speedy remedies for trench mouth...
...American.. Journal of Surgery, Dr. S. L. Goldberg urges chlorophyll, the green coloring matter of plants, for trench mouth. Of 122 cases with severe gum infection, 98 were cured (usually in three or four days) and 24 were improved by using chlorophyll sprays twice a day plus frequent eye-dropper injections of chlorophyll between the teeth...