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...listen to Dr. John Richard Brinkley, goat gland rejuvenation exponent, diagnose and prescribe for letter-writing patients over the radio. Occasionally static interferes, wags say, and causes the sick to get the wrong code number for their prescriptions, to treat themselves for dandruff when they are suffering from torpid liver...
...years ago he fell ill. Thorough in everything, he was thorough in his sicknesses. He had cirrhosis of the liver, heart failure and kidney trouble all at once. His eyes and teeth also went back on him. For weeks at a time he can only sleep upright in a chair, his great grey head resting on his arms. According to all the laws of medicine he should have died a year ago. Between attacks he continues to paint, portraits now. Modern critics, incidentally, prefer these to his murals. His peacocks, sharks, panthers and zebras were magnificently alive, but there were...
Research workers set themselves to the task of finding the relative Vitamin G content of various foods. The results of this work will be announced at Atlanta. One paper will deal with beef, will rank the value-parts as: liver, kidney, heart, muscle...
Life Saver. Patrick Henry Callahan, paint and varnish man of Louisville, Ky., oldtime friend of William Jennings Bryan, ardent Dry Catholic, indefatigable letter-writer and publicist, told the committee of the lives Prohibition had saved. His statistics: alcoholism, 26,400; cirrhosis of the liver, 42,300; Bright's disease, 62,100. Declared Mr. Callahan: "With undisputed statistics I have shown from merely three diseases where prohibitionists have saved more [U. S.] lives than were lost in action in the Great War.* A hundred thousand lives are not to be sniffed...
...white the outside half-inch and tipped with black. Dalton's foxes were fed on horsemeat, bread and milk, with occasional young calves. Modern ranch-bred silver foxes are fed cow's milk, with cream added for fat content when first weaned. Soon afterward they get eggs, liver, tripe or heart. Adult foxes are permitted to gobble whole meat, shredded wheat, fish, orange juice, tomato juice, turnips, spinach, porridge, cod-liver oil and yeast...