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...December 28 at a meeting of the Sigma Xi, honorary scientific society, in Columbus, Ohio, Kirtley Mather, professor of Geology, advanced the theory that science could cure war because "much of the physical basis of international jealously" is eliminated by substitutes made by scientists...
...that leukemia is not transmitted by a bacterium or virus, that it is a malignant disorder resembling cancer. Moreover, they discovered that some mice could be made immune by shooting into them leukemic cells inactivated by mild heat (115° F.). So far, this work has not produced a cure for leukemia in man, but may lead to one eventually...
Last fall doctors were startled to receive in the mail a slick new penny pamphlet called Gonorrhea the Crippler! garnished with diagrams and crammed with terse, practical advice. Other new pamphlets were Syphilis in Our Town, and Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread, Its Cure. Last week Dr. Parran proudly ushered forth the Service's most ambitious popular work: Communicable Diseases...
...cause & cure of cancer, rheumatism, influenza, the common cold, a score of other diseases, doctors know practically nothing. But there are boundaries to medical ignorance: and from time to time doctors map the little they do know. Last week appeared a convenient manual of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) which clearly stated the main problems facing research workers...
...Tuesday night's five-hour Student Union session two facts emerge: the H.S.U. will not be governed by Communists during the coming year; and it has cut itself loose from Russia's apron strings and passed a somewhat hamstrung condemnation of Russian aggression. But these decisions will not cure the H.S.U. of red spots before the eyes, a malady which has reached epidemic proportions in all liberal groups...