Word: hay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Major Sir Henry John Delves Broughton, 59, big-game-hunting sportsman whose trial for murder was a Maughamesque midsummer sensation of Kenya Colony in 1941; of undetermined causes; in Liverpool. He was acquitted in the fatal shooting of his handsome friend, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Enroll, with whom Sir Henry's 29-year-old bride had fallen in love...
...dose and, if no decided improvement results after one week, to try 500 mg. daily until satisfactory progress is observed. After that he might get along comfortably on 250 mg. or less during the season." The chemists believe the vitamin works as follows: During allergic attacks, such as hay fever, the vitamin-C level in the body goes down; at the same time, histamine in the blood goes up. Histamine is the villain of allergy, for it is an irritating substance normally present in small amounts in the body but formed in large quantities whenever tissues are dam aged...
...Hay-fever sufferers, most skeptical of patients, were last fortnight again offered a new hope. In Science Chemists Harry N. Holmes and Wyvona Alexander, of Oberlin College, recommended vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for relieving the complaint...
...react with each other, releasing ammonia (the amine part of histamine) and eliminating the irritating chemical. As circulating blood contains dissolved oxygen, Dr. Holmes thought it likely that the same reaction goes on in the body, decided to see what huge quantities of vitamin C would do toward taking hay-fever sufferers' extra histamine out of circulation, in order to relieve wheezing and sneezing...
...With a hay harvest breeze...