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...modern history of syphilis began in 1905 when Zoologist Fritz Schaudinn of Germany discovered the specific cause of infection. One year later August von Wassermann of Germany devised his Famed blood test for diagnosing the disease. In 1910 Biochemist Paul Ehrlich, once more of Germany, after 605 laboratory experiments, finally hit upon a positive ure for syphilis. Popularly called 606 or Salvarsan, this Ehrlich remedy was technically a compound of arsenic known as arsphenamine. With the cause & cure well in hand, world medicine was fully equipped to move forcefully against one of the worst scourges of the human race...
...three years Biochemist William Gumming Rose and his associates at University of Illinois have fed artificially-made food to white rats. Of the ingredients in natural food only the proteins furnish nitrogen available for tissue building. Chemists have broken down the proteins into more than 20 simpler compounds called amino acids. Dr. Rose accordingly prepared and purified all the amino acids he knew of, fed them to baby rats together with synthetic carbohydrates, fats, salts and vitamins. Something was lacking. The animals failed to grow, wasted away, died. Then Dr. Rose succeeded in isolating another protein component: alpha -amino -beta...
Died. John Scott Haldane, 76, famed physiologist and physicist, brother of the late Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane (onetime Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain), father of London University's celebrated Author-Biochemist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane; of pneumonia; in Oxford. A confirmed hater of materialism, he called it "nothing better than a superstition...
When frail, tired "N. Lenin" (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) died in 1924, the Bolshevist high command decided upon a strictly non-Christian apotheosis. A conference of scientists was called to find means of preserving the body. Biochemist Boris Ilyich Zbarsky and Anatomist Vladimir Petrovich Vorobev offered to try, worked four months on the cadaver, which subsequently appeared under glass in a temporary tomb in the Red Square. When plans for the permanent tomb had finally been agreed on, the corpse vanished for 18 months into the recesses of the Kremlin. At last in 1930 the new mausoleum was completed...
...recent essay, J. B. S. Haldane, the English Biochemist, on reasoning from the study of plant and animal habits, finds that the three great classes of human parasites are Bankers, Brokers, and Bishops. From reasoning, no less definite, but far more convincing, the Radio Priest arrives at the same conclusion (except for the Bishops). If Father Coughlin makes "House of Morgan" and "gold-" into adjectives more colorful than exact, the ideas could not be decently expressed for popular consumption with other words. A five-foot shelf of Economic Quarterlies cannot prove as he does, that there are forty thousand millionaires...