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Louis F. Fleser, Sheldon Emory Professor of Organic Chemistry, and William Cochran, professor of Statistics, will participate in the first broad government study on the subject, Fleser's specialty is chemistry of tobacco smoke, and Cochran's is mathematical statistics, especially as applied to biologic problems.
It is not difficult to show that animals compete for space. Naturalists have been observing it for over 30 years. C.R. Carpenter, in 1940, after observing gibbons in Siam, was led to conclude that "possession and defense of territory . . . may be a fundamental biologic need. Certain it is that this...
"Because the teeth are part of the body and exposed to the traumas, the disorders of growth, the intoxications, the infections, the dietary deficiencies, and all the other influences that cause disease of other parts of the body, the study, understanding, and management of dental and oral disease require a...
Eastern Mystery. Dr. Langmuir was forthright in listing cases where something went wrong. Among those who got vaccine made by California's Cutter Laboratories, 79 developed polio; so did 105 members of their families and 20 "com munity contacts." Three-fourths of the cases were paralytic; there were eleven...
More news on smoking and diseases came last week in a new book, The Biologic Effects of Tobacco (Little, Brown; $4.50). Far from supplying the single, simple answer that so many seek, it makes clear that the relation between smoking, disease and premature death is highly complex. On the subject...