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...There is," Sanderson also observes, "a vague but universal presumption that wild animals in their natural environment do not suffer from diseases such as afflict ourselves and our domestic animals." Dissecting warm specimens in the jungle, instead of pickled specimens in a laboratory, he found a startling incidence of internal parasites, anatomical abnormalities (e.g., a rat with one lung), tumors, deficiency diseases, etc. He believes that it would be useful for science to undertake a wider study of the diseases of truly wild animals in order to learn the control of disease in our own world. His book shows that...
...Louisville Courier-Journal-We are an emotional people; that is why it will be difficult for us to maintain aloofness from the European tragedy... But now with... the flood of propaganda and falsehood sure to afflict us as it did prior to our entry into the World War, our aroused emotions and sympathies may sweep us off our moorings... We must keep our heads cool and preserve a strict and real neutrality. We are not likely to be able to do that by following a policy which many of us favor of professing neutrality, yet doing everything "short...
...many years he had refused to speak at all to Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Reportedly he fought the appointment of saintly Benjamin Cardozo to the court; urged Hoover not "to afflict the Court with another...
...Journal of the American Medical Association last week, agitating against humans participating in that No. 1 Florida pastime: swimming. Contrary to popular belief, he said, not contaminated water but plain swimming, even in pure pools, is responsible for the boils, middle ear inflammations, mastoid infections and sinusitis that afflict thousands of swimmers every summer. Water "macerates" delicate skin, washes away protective mucous in the nose, opens up "avenues of infection" for staphylococci and other virulent bacteria. To prevent serious infections, Dr. Taylor offered the following aquatic tips for terrestrials...
Chief cause of peptic ulcers, which afflict about 330,000 U. S. citizens (mostly business and professional men), is oversecretion of harsh gastric juice. Gastric juice, when abnormally acid, erodes the delicate lining of the stomach, produces inflamed spots near its lower end. To experimenters who have long been seeking an easily available chemical which would check gastric secretion in ulcer patients, Physiologists John Stephens Gray, Elfie Wieczorowski and famed Researcher Andrew Conway Ivy of Chicago's Northwestern University brought hopeful data last week. In Science they reported that "extracts of normal male urine," injected in small amounts...