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...Busch's wartime investigations of some of the world's most foreign nations : Argentina, the Union of South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, England and Ireland. It does nothing to dissipate their foreignness. Of Argentina he reports: "Solemn in mien, Argentinians are addicted to dark clothes, funerals, and liver trouble. . . . Going about with downcast eyes, they are fussy about floors and pavements. These are elaborately made, in little slippery squares and patterns." Of South Africa: "Large animals, while more numerous than they should be, are not an influential segment of the population. . . . None of the animals in South Africa...
...Treatment consisted in giving a diet with a high protein content: liver, meat, fish and soya-bean derivates. We gave rice polishings in the form of a cake made with flour and a little baking powder and fried in peanut oil. These were very popular, especially with the children. Vitamins were given. [Some made] a rapid, uncomplicated recovery; in [others] progress was slow . . . with disappointing relapses and a tendency to die suddenly and unexpectedly...
Terrible Pool of Blood. The long sea voyage was a horror. Much of the time it stormed. Once Severn, who was himself ill (he had had typhus and a liver com plaint), came upon Keats during a hemorrhage and stumbled away to the stern of the ship, because the sight of so much suffering was unbearable. "He heard again that ghostly cough ; he saw again the poor white face, the terrible pool of blood." In Rome poet and painter had rooms in the Piazza, di Spagna, before a magnificent flight of steps that led upwards to the twin-towered Church...
Word of a rich fish came last week from Cape Town. The fish is the source of an extract 800 times richer in vitamin A than the best cod-liver oil. The 60-lb. fish, commonly called the "bloubiskop" by South African fishermen, is the bafaro (Polyprion americanus). A thimbleful of its liver oil has enough vitamin A to supply a whole family for eight months...
...their craggy, flounder-shaped island (39,709 sq. mi., about the size of Kentucky), 120,000-odd hardy Icelanders trade in sheepskins, cod and herring, cod-liver oil, furs, some cryolite (an aluminum ore). Proud, self-sufficient people, they have a balanced budget and compulsory education. They have never had an army or navy. They have no beggars, not even a jail for Icelanders...