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Conditions favoring injury to the eye from foreign bodies, such as chaff and a careless attendant, should be corrected.
Grain 2•14 1•81 2•22 2•11 1•76 2•00 Husk 6•47 6•03 6•99 8•24 6•03 6•75 Chaff 16•53 17•23 15•59 19•19 18•97 16•06 Leaves 8•44 7•19 14•59 10•29 15•92 10•88 Upper part of straw 4•95 5•44 9•22 8•25 11•0 7•77 Middle part of straw 6•11 5•23 7•41 6•53 9•01 6•66 Lower part of straw 5•33 5•18 9•76 7•11 7•30 6•93 [Pg 69] The specimens of oats on which these analyses were made were from different districts of country, grown on soils of different quality, and were, further, of different varieties; and yet they show, on the whole, a remarkable similarity in the proportion of ash in each part, and indicate that there is a normal quantity belonging to it.
7•42 1•94 chaff 9•14 1•79 .
63•89 chaff 0•37 4•31 .
4•40 straw 1•49 5•07 3•35 1•36 49•56 chaff 1•58 1•04 9•61 .
The straw, and particularly the chaff of the cereals, and the leaves of most plants, contain it in smaller quantity, although exceptions to this are not unfrequent, one of the most curious being the case of poppy-seed, which contains only about 12 per cent, while the leaves yield upwards of 37 per cent.
The value of chaff more nearly resembles that of straw.
Here and there a nurse with a baby in her arms haunts the shade, or a parcel of older children play lawn-tennis or croquet to an accompaniment of chaff from envious street-boys.
" While he was thus in two minds, Neptune sent a terrible great wave that seemed to rear itself above his head till it broke right over the raft, which then went to pieces as though it were a heap of dry chaff tossed about by a whirlwind.
"And they will bury her and Fyodor the thrasher with his curly beard full of chaff and his shirt torn on his white shoulders-they will bury him.
Megiddo was reached in a week without loss or difficulty, and a great battle was fought in the fertile plain to the north-west of the fortress, in which the Egyptian king was completely victorious, and his enemies were scattered like chaff before him.
But although not the slightest sign of discrimination is visible in his quotations,-although for him a handful of chaff from Schenck is all the same thing as a measure of wheat from Morgagni,-there is a formidable display of authorities, and an abundant proof of ingenious researches to be found in each of the great works of Hahnemann with which I am familiar.
He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
Scraps of popular songs were chorused with an enthusiasm which was a strange prelude to a scientific lecture, and there was already a tendency to personal chaff which promised a jovial evening to others, however embarrassing it might be to the recipients of these dubious honors.
But he determined to chaff Fix, when he had the chance, with mysterious allusions, which, however, need not betray his real suspicions.
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