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...beginnings were not auspicious. The first day of prohibition brought violent riots, caused not by eleventh-hour drinkers but by bone-dry natives furious that property taxes had been increased to compensate for lost liquor taxes. Soon smuggling became a problem. Hotels shorn of their licenses lost money. For Europeans club life without chotapegs (half-sized whiskey-sodas) was as dull as billiards without cues. At Government House parties and receptions, guests beefed because His Excellency, Governor Sir Lawrence Roger Lumley, said he sympathized with prohibition, and would not serve even shandygaff (half beer, half ginger ale) to the Viceroy...
...Vitamin C (ascorbic acid): for scurvy, pyorrhea, rheumatic fever, wound healing, hemorrhage, cataract, insomnia, inflammation of bone marrow...
...pride, for as an art, U. S. dentistry is the world's finest. From the days when Dentist Isaac Greenwood supplied grim-lipped George Washington with a set of wooden teeth (they splintered), a set of iron teeth (port wine rusted them), and a dressy set of bone teeth, U. S. dentists have come...
...human ear consists of three labyrinths: the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long canal to the eardrum. The soundwaves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted first through the tiny lever bones of the middle ear-the "hammer," "anvil," and "stirrup"-then through a tissue-thin window into the inner ear. On the other side of this window is the main sound-wave receiver, a snail-like bone sunk deep in the base of the skull, with communicating nerves to the brain...
...deep middle-ear deafness which afflicts 5,000,000 people in the U. S. is otosclerosis, a bony overgrowth blocking off the window which leads to the inner ear. Most operations designed to open a window may be dangerous, for they involve partial destruction of the heavy mastoid bone. Dr. Lempert cuts directly through the ear (see cut), and carves out a brand-new window. With a dentist's burr, he drills into the middle ear, drills out a new window in one of the semicircular canals and rearranges hammer, anvil and stirrup...