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...Migraine Feels. The brain feels as though a hammer were pounding on the skull, or as though a drill were grinding into the bone. Or an iron hoop seems to tighten around the head. Or the bones of the skull seem about to burst apart like the staves of an overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight...
Government agents conferred a doctorate upon the Salmon last week. Once upon a time the only fish doctor was Dr. Cod Fish whose liver oil was mysteriously, disgustfully good for puny children. Then someone discovered that there was a Vitamin D which made bones straight & sturdy, prevented the bone-softening disease called rickets. Someone else discovered that cod liver oil was good for children because it contained quantities of Vitamin D. That gave joy to Parke, Davis & Co. of Detroit, Scott & Bowne of Bloomfield, N. J., E. L. Patch Co., of Boston, E. R. Squibb & Sons of Manhattan, Mead Johnson...
Arizona repealed its ''bone dry" law, permitted physicians to prescribe whiskey...
Nutritionists this year are stressing Vitamin A. Vitamin D?derived from cod or halibut liver oils, manufactured as viosterol, or developed in the body by natural or artificial sunlight?is essential for the utilization of bone building lime salts in the body. Vitamin A, however, now appears to be the body's best soldier against aisease. Best, appetizing sources of Vitamin A are butter, whole milk, egg yolk, edible green leaves (spinach, lettuce, celery leaves, beet tops), yellow corn, sweet potatoes, carrots...
...early 1900's the game was played in a much different manner than now. During that period it was a contest of Bone-crushing, flying wedge and revolving plays. A redeeming feature of the sport is that the man of ordinary build has become an active participant in the game along with the men of might who played the game when it was very...