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Clear Solution. In Memphis, James Neal was freed from a drunk charge after, he told the court that he was merely trying to cure a gallstone attack with a remedy compounded of beer, Epsom salts, vinegar, water, gin and laundry bluing...
IRRIGATION (douche) to wash out the sperm after intercourse. The water may be plain, or have added boric acid, vinegar or proprietary compounds sold "for feminine hygiene." Relatively ineffective...
...Federal agents in Albany. N.Y. seized 5,247 cases of "Honegar," a honey-and-vinegar preparation promoted as a traditional Vermont remedy by Dr. DeForest Clinton Jarvis, bestselling author of Folk Medicine (TIME, Dec. 28). Said U.S. Attorney Theodore F. Bowes: the stuff is touted as good for about 35 ailments, ranging from arthritis to chicken pox, but cannot be sold in interstate commerce "until the label tells how to use the product to get the cures claimed...
...Author Crisp is irreverent and serious by turn. He went into Operation Crusader (against Rommel's forces massed around Tobruk) in November 1941, full of beans and combat vinegar. By the end of the fourth day, "we shed our lightheartedness and eagerness. The sense of adventure had gone out of our lives, to be replaced by grimness and fear and a perpetual, mounting weariness of body and spirit." His U.S.-built MS light tanks-known to Crisp and his men as "Honeys"-mounted 37-mm. guns, whose shells bounced off the heavy German panzers like peas. To knock them...
...there is no limit to the ailments for which Dr. Jarvis offers the honey-vinegar panacea, so there is no limit to starry-eyed consumers' demand: more than 245,000 copies of Folk Medicine had been sold by last week, and countless readers had written testimonials to Dr. Jarvis...