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...Smith was one of four U. S. Public Health Service scientists whom Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming brought to Manhattan last week to lecture before the New York Electrical Society's science forum. The others: flea-bitten Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer, discoverer of the cause of typhus fever in the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 7); tick-bitten Dr. Roscoe Roy ("Spenny") Spencer, who invented a new kind of vaccine (macerated insects which carry the virus of disease) and tried it out first on himself; Dr. Carl Voegtlin, pharmacologist, who has accumulated so many facts about the chemistry of cell...
...droll doctor is Rollo Eugene Dyer, assistant director of the National Institute of Health. His favorite drollery last summer was to pull up his trouser leg and exhibit a small, fine-meshed cage strapped to his skin. Friends peeping into the cage beheld a herd of fleas contentedly nipping at the doctor's epidermis. Raillery was always in order. Dr. Dyer is a collector of stamps. Had he now become a flea collector? He is fond of dogs. Was he shielding his dogs from vermin? No, Dr. Dyer would chuckle, and his friends seldom realized that he had ceased...
Last week Dr. Dyer, weak, emaciated and quavering, left Washington's Naval Hospital. One of his caged fleas carried a virulent form of typhus fever which had almost killed him, had kept him bed-ridden for a month. But he was contented. He had demonstrated something more about typhus fever. In Europe the body louse carries the virus of typhus fever, transmits a form of the disease which kills 22% to 65% of its victims. In the U. S. there has been a so-called mild form of typhus with a 2% mortality.* Dr. Dyer was instructed by Director...
...pair, a white Panama hat at $40, cloth coat at $420, dresses at $225 and $250, and perfumery at $25 or $15, as necessaries for my wife." Ill lay: Mrs- John Work Garrett, of bronchial influenza, in Baltimore; Charles Spencer Chaplin, of food poisoning, in Hollywood; Dr, Rolla Eugene Dyer, typhus fever expert of the U. S. Public Health Service, of typhus fever, in Washington ; Edward Beale McLean in Paris...
...Fowler had married Mrs. Anne Urquhart ("Fifi") Stillman, 19 years his senior; her daughter Muriel, Major Elisha Dyer Hubbard, 24 years her senior; her daughter Mathilde, Swiss Riding Master Max Oser, 30 years her senior. Each of these marriages upset her. In her will she left Muriel only four-twelfths of her estate. Mathilde two-twelfths, faithful Fowler only one-twelfth...