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...Dentist George Clarence Dreher of Newark, N. J. pondered the use of maggots for cleaning the root canal completely of dead pulp, ordinarily a difficult procedure. Too nice to experiment in a patient's mouth, Dentist Dreher got a freshly-pulled decayed1 front tooth-he reported last week in Dental Survey-and put a fat maggot to work on the decay. The maggot was too fat to get into the root canal...
Thereupon Dentist Dreher hatched some germ-free blowfly eggs and fed the larvae for twelve hours on pig-liver. One of these tiny maggots he penned in the pulp chamber of the tooth with a light cotton plug. Three days of work killed the maggot. Another slim maggot then went to work, delved for three days, died. Then a third maggot. After nine days the tooth was cleaner than a dog's, "with the exception of a thin, hard, white secretion left on the wall of the canal by the maggot." That coating was sterile...
Twenty times Dentist Dreher made the experiment and 20 times the maggots emptied and sterilized decayed teeth. Simultaneous observation on 50 un-maggotted decayed teeth showed 47 of them infested with germs. Dentist Dreher is delighted in having a new aid in his work, hopes soon to put maggots to work on bad teeth in people's mouths...
...passengers was a Dr. Albert Voss, dentist, of Manchester. At a coroner's inquest into his death last week, the story of the disaster became stranger than ever. The body of Dr. Voss was picked up nearly two miles from the wreckage of the plane. It was not burned. Evidence seemed to show that Dr. Voss jumped from the plane. Though his 16-year-old niece Lottie was one of the killed passengers, there was a possibility that he might have set the plane afire...
...Author, of German ancestry, has not felt out of place in Cincinnati, where he has spent his 40-odd years. Graduate of no university, at 20 he was a dentist, then studied medicine, now teaches physiology at the University of Cincinnati. Three visits to Japan resulted in his biography of the late great Hideyo Noguchi; his laboratory pets gave him the material for Lives (TIME, May 2, 1932). Swart, tousle-headed, he says: "I am not much to look at. ... I am an authority on the cockroach. I know considerable about the Japanese. I play Beethoven constantly and abominably...