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...centimetres per pound of body weight) is withdrawn from a vein in the arm, mixed with citrate to prevent clotting. The citrated blood is passed through a rubber tube into a small, round quartz and steel irradiation chamber. Against the quartz window the doctor fits a lamp, like a flashlight, which emanates ultraviolet rays. An automatic shutter turns the lamp off every few seconds to prevent over-irradiation. Length of irradiation varies from nine to 14 seconds, depending upon the severity of the infection. Once the blood is delicately irradiated, it is returned immediately to the same vein...
...With a flashlight stuffed in his coat pocket, he set forth to read meters. His objects: 1) to save expenses, 2) to get closer touch with the customers of Gardner Gas, Fuel & Light...
...going up to Times Square and just walk around and let the lights shine on me." Before the evening was over, Quartermaster Cronin did some shining of his own. With two pals he drifted into the bright Hollywood Restaurant, and soon, right in front of a flashlight camera, he had his chin chucked by a chorus girl till he glowed like Ambrose Light...
...Portland only President Roosevelt rated more flashlight bulbs; he had drawn no such crowds when he was a candidate in 1932. Back up the mountain hurried Candidate Dewey, to Salt Lake City, where Republicans were cordial to the point of frenzy; to the Snake River Valley of Idaho, where he lauded the independence of homegrown cooperatives; to Boise past the irrigation projects, the forest reserves, the oil reserves, the region of Thousand Springs, where underground rivers pour from the cliffs in enough volume to provide water for all the cities of the U. S. ("Here in our own America...
...Public-health activities, in connection with State health departments, were sponsored in country regions of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Oklahoma. Some of these communities had never paid much mind to medical guardians. "In Seminole County [Okla.] ... it took a midnight raid with flashlight photographs to put an end to the bootlegging of forbidden grades of milk. ... In another [county] a sanitation officer persuaded the authorities of a little city to do something about their water supply by the good old device of putting dyestuff down a suspected privy and watching it color the water of the spring whence the citizens...