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Sugar from Dahlias. The roots, or "tubers," of dahlias contain a starch called inulin. If the tubers are heated and squeezed by a giant hydraulic press, the inulin can be recovered and converted into a syrup which yields fructose, the sugar in fruits. Since this sugar is the most easily oxidized of all sugars and twice as sweet as cane or beet sugar, it might be assimilated in small quantities by diabetics, might flavor the food of fat persons who wish to reduce. Properly cultivated, dahlias yield as much sugar, acre for acre, as do sugar beets...
Fertility. Lettuce, cotton seed and whole wheat contain comparatively large quantities of Vitamin E, according to its discoverer, Dr. Herbert McLean Evans of Berkeley, Calif. For lack of Vitamin E otherwise normal female animals, and probably women, cannot have babies. But they regain their fertility immediately after resuming proper meals. Dr. Evans & associates have just proved that this vitamin is a rare alcohol, which they now hope to make artificially...
...tiny iron-filled glass ball agitated by an electromagnet to stir the contents of the tiny glass vessels, Drs. David Glick and Gerson Ravinson Biskind of San Francisco made micro-analyses of microscopic bits of human tissue. Thus they learned that the middle part of pituitary gland contains Vitamin C (found in oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, spinach) in more concentrated form than any plant or other animal tissue. The fore part of the pituitary, the adrenals and the ovaries also contain heavy Vitamin C concentrations. Concentration in the ovary reaches its height as the ovum ripens. That relation suggested...
...first soda fountain in Manhattan, began to bottle and sell carbonated water from Saratoga. By 1883 Saratoga hotels had a capacity of 12,500, sheltered 100,000 costive, gouty, giddy visitors a summer season. To entertain the visitors the Saratoga racetrack was built and gambling establishments were opened. To contain a Saratoga season's clothing and finery the huge Saratoga trunk was invented...
...Saratoga springs spurt supercharged soda water. The kind named Geyser contains bicarbonates of sodium, calcium, magnesium and iron It is antacid, aids digestion, relieves gastric distress. Other Saratoga waters contain chlorides of sodium (table salt), potassium, lithium, ammonium. The kind called Coesa is a mild laxative; the kind called Hathorn, a vigorous cathartic. Dr. Baruch after drinking "not wisely but too well, learned a lesson which I have often taught others -that these waters must be prescribed with care...