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Some time ago Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard, Yale physiologist, by chance attended a dinner of nose & throat specialists. One of the rhinolaryngologists brought up the question of the serious hardship that some of his patients underwent because of the persistence of onion and garlic odor on their breath. Try as hard as they might to avoid these alliaceous vegetables, they occasionally fell victim to them camouflaged in soup or salad. Then for a time their lives, and the lives of their associates, were miserable...
...Haggard maintained that the odors were due to particles of the vegetables or flecks of their essential oils sticking inside the mouth, especially to the rough base of the tongue. If that were so, he was reasonably sure that he could remove all offensive odors by gargling with a cheap deodorant like chloramine. Reason for Dr. Haggard's confidence: He had been ''able to remove quickly from the skin all trace of the odor from the discharge of a skunk (accidentally received) with the use of a strong suspension of chlorinated lime in water...
...first opportunity Dr. Haggard and his laboratory Associate Chemist Leon A. Greenberg rigged up the following apparatus at New Haven: a large glass tube through which the experimenters couid exhale into bottles containing fluids having affinities for garlic and onion odors; a gas meter to measure the amount of breath Drs. Haggard and Greenberg exhaled; a suction pump to pull their breath through the detector apparatus...
...wing, braced himself against a strut, transferred oil from the starboard to the port tanks. When he had braved, the howling wind six times he had a gallon of oil, and the port motor started up again. Seven hours later Kingsford-Smith nursed his crippled ship back to Sydney. Haggard and drawn, he told newsmen: "Bill Taylor is the world's greatest hero. No other man could have done...
...books entitled "Devils, Drugs, and Doctors," by Haggard. "Life of Samuel Johnson," "Goode's School Atlas...