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...growth-promoting substance that made Alice in Wonderland's Alice shoot up through the treetops has been discovered at last. Drs. Herbert McLean Evans and Choh Hao Li of the University of California announced in last week's Science that they have isolated a few milligrams of it in pure form-not enough to practice on little girls with, but enough to practice on rats...
Russia's newest medical weapons against wound bacteria are among its oldest-onions and garlic. Say Drs. I. V. Toroptsev and A. G. Filatova, who made the wound experiments: "The ancient medicinal remedies used over thousands of years no longer appear absurd.'' The evidence for the vegetables as germicides, presented in last week's American Review of Soviet Medicine, would not have surprised any Russian peasant-he uses onions and garlic as a protection against typhus...
...Russian scientist named B. Tokin noticed that "a paste prepared from a small amount of macerated onion, garlic or other allied plant immediately emits volatile substances which are lethal to yeast cultures," frogs' eggs, protozoa (one-celled animals which live in water), etc. Two years ago Drs. Toroptsev and Filatova began grinding up fresh onions and garlic to see whether the smell would do any good to infected wounds of rabbits...
Most successful were Drs. James A. Baker and Malcolm S. Ferguson of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, who raised a group of "axenic" Mexican platyfish (Platypoecttus maculatus) from birth to full maturity.* The platyfish, not an egg-layer, bears live young. To make sure that their baby platyfish got a germ-free start, the researchers bathed the mother fish in alcohol, ether and iodine, made a Caesarean incision and gently sucked the young out of the germless oviduct with a rubber bulb, taking care not to rupture the germ-packed intestines. Then they popped the baby fishes into...
...Drs. Meyer Friedman and Jacob Sergei Kasinin became interested in G.G.'s and R.G.'s flouting of the accepted rule, made tes after test to discover some organic difference in the twins. There was no difference. The doctors even tested the flow of blood to the kidneys, because a poor kidney blood supply is believed to lead to heart trouble. Both twins had a poor kidney blood supply. Mystified, the doctors conclude that 1) Lead in the Pants has something the matter with him that the doctors cannot find; 2) Speed-Up George (who now has a heart...