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Making hay out of green cotton stalks was Chemist Hand's idea. Hay is good in proportion to its content of crude protein fat and carbohydrates. Chemist Hand subjected young cotton stalks to analyses, found them even richer than alfalfa...
With such empirical data in mind, Dr. Turck projected a rational theory to explain the mechanisms of shock, infection (especially of lungs and digestive system), protein poisoning, some allergies, focal infections, vaccines...
...several theories of allergy stand out as useful - he protein theory and the reagin theory. Two points are certain about hayfever and the other allergies: 1) certain substances are mildly poisonous to certain people; 2) people react to their personal poisons in specific ways. The irritants may be plant pollens (ragweed, timothy, oak), foods (wheat, milk, eggs, fish), ani maldanders, feathers, dusts. The victim may show his symptoms in his nose and eyes (this is hayfever per se), his skin (hives), brain (migraine), intestines (colitis). Two theories concerning the physiology of allergy have many followers among the specialists. One theory...
Last week's product is even more convenient. Heretofore it has been dangerous to inject liver extracts directly into the blood stream. The extracts behaved like protein poisons. By fiddling with the liver juices after a method which has been patented, Professors Sturgis & Isaacs developed an innocuous fluid. Once introduced into a vein it whips the blood into a fury of red cell reproduction. The fury lasts for four to six weeks, when another intravenous injection becomes necessary. That is more pleasant, anemics find, than swallowing hog stomachs once a day or eating beef liver at every meal...
Diluted 6 Boiled Brains, Brain cells contain protein of about the consistency of uncooked egg white. Alcohol, coffee, cocaine and anesthetics coagulate those brain proteins, as boiling hardens eggs. Bromides and thiocyanates thin out the proteins. In certain types of insanity (the manias) the brain apparently becomes permanently boiled. In other types (catatonia) the brain is diluted. Using drugs which give the opposite effect helps the various insane types, and sometimes cures. Lack of oxygen lets the brain get soft. Hence, said Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Cornell) who with his colleague G. Holmes Richter made these observations: "Aviators may become incapacitated...