Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following is an extract from an article entitled "The Disunited States of Europe," appearing in the November Issue of Current History, in which A. B. Hart '80, professor emeritus of History, discusses the possibility of a confederation of the European nations...
Three years ago George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy, Harvard medical men, discovered that liver eaten regularly and in great quantities overcame pernicious anemia. Later their colleague Edwin Joseph Cohn developed an extract to replace bulk liver. To Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis manufacturing druggists, the Harvard men gave the commercial monopoly because methods of manufacture were too delicate for novices to handle. Last year other pharmaceutical houses, in the U. S. and abroad, studied the preparations under Harvard instruction. So last week the Harvard Committee on pernicious anemia announced that good liver extracts were available almost everywhere, but that...
Last week report of his most recent work, on brain extracts, reached the general public by journalistic interpretation of a weighty article in last month's issue of Medizinische Klinik (Berlin). He de scribed very technically how he crushed the brains of tree frogs and from the juice se cured an extract which he called centronervin. That extract, when injected into the lymph systems and thence into the blood stream of live frogs stimulated them remarkably. It toned up their muscles, made them stronger, especially it seemed to speed up their reactions. Treated frogs saw flies more quickly than normal...
...while his Jockey Club audience occasionally cheered, the Viscount recalled that Britain has nearly two billion dollars invested in Argentina, mostly in railways and cattle. Humorously he noted that Argentina's Prize Bull of 1929 had just been bought at auction in Buenos Aires by the British Bovril (Beef Extract) Co. (slogan: BOVRIL puts BEEF into YOU!). "It seems to me," concluded Viscount d'Abernon, "that the reciprocal friendship uniting our countries is of a very special order...
Yeast & Liver. Whole dried yeast helps the absorption of food. Water extract of liver stimulates appetite.?St. Louis' Wendell Horace Griffith...