Science: Ninety-Eight Cents

"In Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained-'enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a tenpenny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken-coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog.' All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drugstore for 98c."— TIME, Feb. 25, 1924.

Dr. Allan Craig of Chicago, addressing the American College of Surgeons last week at Montreal: "It is the spirit within him that makes the man supreme in the...

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