[…] this winter you must look as if you wouldn't dream of using anything more artificial than a smitch of powder.

Out-of-town patients came in droves for the treatment of [jake leg]. Jake leg was caused by drinking methyl (wood) alcohol rather than ethyl alcohol. There's a world of difference.

There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.

In the summer of 2002, responding to the 9/11 atrocity, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made a selection of verses from the Qur'an a mandatory text for new students.