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Tree Rings. Dr. Andrew Ellicott Douglass, University of Arizona astronomer, is the founder of the 20th-century science of "dendrochronology"-telling time (in years) by means of tree rings. The thickness of the annual growth rings in trees is proportional to the year's rainfall. Thus the rings fall in patterns corresponding to the varying rainfall supplies during the life span of the tree. By matching patterns from logs of recent date to successively older & older specimens, Dr. Douglass carried a continuous record back several hundred years. Examining logs in the ruins of Indian pueblos built before Columbus...
Died. Leon Forrest Douglass, 71, millionaire inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company; after a long illness; in San Francisco. Once said to have "done more to abolish peace and quiet than anyone else now living," Douglass gave Edison's phonograph a spring motor, brought its inventor his first cash reward. Once he had his daughter fight an octopus to publicize his underwater camera. Other Douglass inventions: a magnetic torpedo for World War I, the first pay telephone, a device for double reproduction of sound in radio...
Frederick Douglass. Greatest killer of both Negroes and whites is heart disease. But while tuberculosis has dropped to seventh place among whites, it still holds second among Negroes, killing over 15,000 every year. Like syphilis, the "white plague" is a white man's disease, was unknown in Africa. Some authorities hold that the Negro is more susceptible to tuberculosis than the white man because he has been exposed to the tubercle bacillus for only three or four generations, has not yet developed the white man's age-old resistance. But latest research shows that prime cause...
...Negro doctors know much about tuberculosis, few white doctors dare to operate on their "massively" infected Negro patients. Outstanding Negro thoracic surgeon in the U. S. is young, gentle Frederick Douglass Stubbs of Philadelphia. Son of a well-known doctor, graduate of Dartmouth, a leader of his class in Harvard Medical School, Dr. Stubbs spends most of his time at dingy Frederick Douglass Hospital. Here he looks after a ward of some 25 patients with advanced tuberculosis, whose lungs he deflates and drains...
Frederick Douglass welcomes all types of cases, gets along somehow on a State grant of $4,500 a year, dollar contributions from poor patients and friends. Patients live on frankfurters and beans, nurses go for months without pay. Its hundred general beds, says Dr. Stubbs frankly, could easily be absorbed by other Philadelphia hospitals. But he fights to keep 45-year-old Frederick Douglass alive, for it is the only hospital in the U. S. where Negro doctors can undertake thoracoplasty (rib surgery for collapsing the lung). Dr. Stubbs chooses his patients carefully, for they are all test cases. Since...