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...leaves Sergeant Shapiro concocts a unique extract which cures ivy poisoning, cause of 15 to 30% of summer and fall casualties in Southern Army posts. The dried, crushed leaves are soaked in pure alcohol until it turns an intense green. This solution is then filtered, put up in 50 cc. (1⅔ oz.) bottles and shipped to Army camps throughout the Fourth Service Command (the Southeastern...
...cure an ivy-poisoned soldier, one-tenth of a cc. of the extract (diluted with one cc. of salt solution) is injected intramuscularly. Burning sensations vanish within two to 24 hours, all blistering within two to five days, and no hospitalization is needed. The average untreated case suffers from one to three weeks, often in a hospital. Sergeant Shapiro's extract cannot prevent ivy poisoning; it desensitizes skin only after an attack. Applied externally, it produces a fine case of poison ivy itself...
...Come? The doctors went to work meanwhile to figure out what was the matter with the vaccine. So far they have little to report. The vaccine, provided by the Rockefeller Foundation since 1936, consists of yellow-fever virus rendered harmless in the laboratory. The ½cc ampules must be kept in frozen storage, must not rise above 37° F. before use. There are three possible causes for the trouble: 1) the Army slipped up on vaccine handling; 2) the toned-down virus sometimes made people sick; 3) this particular batch had been contaminated by another germ...
...Harvard consists of Physics A, which combines C with the first half of Math A. Thus instead of three alternate methods for beginning physics, the student can now choose from only two, B plus D or just A, and thus save a full year of study. Concentrated Physics CC, giving C in half a year, is a new course with 43 students meeting five days a week at Radcliffe because of the shortage of Harvard facilities. Fifteen additional applicants were refused admission to this new course...
...last year to civilian defense and other Governmental agencies in preparing this country for the dilemma which now confronts us that the large numbers of healthy young men in our universities are a legitimate pool from which blood may be obtained. Blood will only be drawn in 500 cc., i.e. 1 pint, lots from individuals who are healthy and in whom such a withdrawal would leave-no deleterious effects. It is required that mature minors (that is individuals under 21) bring with them the written consent of their parents of guardians...