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...Claude Heman Barlow, 72, one of the world's leading authorities on schistosomiasis, had collected the snails in Egypt's labyrinthine irrigation ditches. An expert in Egypt's ministry of public health, he deliberately caught the disease in 1944 during experiments to protect the U.S. against infestation by returning servicemen. The only effective cure for him was injections of tartar emetic, which left him nauseated for eight months...
Egyptians, who use their streams and ditches as drinking fountains, laundries, baths and latrines, dislike the tartar emetic cure because, despite months of discomfort, they can be reinfested in 20 minutes. Dr. Barlow is trying to kill the snails which carry the disease by putting copper sulphate in the water (a concentration strong enough to kill snails is still too weak to affect humans...
...Freestyle--Won by Barlow (B); second, Hull (H); third, Brown (H). Time...
Since 1929, stubborn-jawed Dr. Claude Heman Barlow has been studying bilharziasis, a disease of the bladder caused by snail-borne parasites common in Egypt. In 1944, he infected himself with the parasites (TIME, Dec. 6, 1946). The experiment cost him his own health, but it gave science some valuable clues for controlling the disease. This week Dr. Barlow, 71, received the Medal of Merit from President Truman...
...Lester Barlow of Stamford, Conn., an internationally known explosives inventor, advanced the idea yesterday that the objects were radio controlled flying missiles. Mather thought this solution doubtful...