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...powder is a "globulin," a protein substance derived from the plasma of the beef blood; plasma is the fluid portion of the blood from which the red and white cells have been removed...
...human digestive system in undercooked pork, and burrows into the lining of the small intestine. Result: abdominal pains, diarrhea, muscular tenderness, even high fever, delirium and coma. Trichinae, which rarely infect children, may remain with a patient till the end of his life, often wander in the spinal fluid, lungs, heart, retinas and milk of nursing mothers. Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Archibald L. Hoyne and Abraham Alvin Wolf of Chicago reported a new form of trichinosis in an eleven-month-old Negro baby who died of diphtheria. Autopsy showed, said they, "the first...
...week's Science the biologists revealed the following promising results: injection of small amounts of fresh heptyl aldehyde under the skin of ten dogs with various types of spontaneous tumors produced "softening of the tumors in all dogs . . . except one. . . . Following periods of softening and draining of clear fluid, the tumors as a rule . . . gradually disappeared." Especially elated were Scientists Strong & Whitney over the recovery of two eight-year-old bitches with advanced cancer of the breast, one a cocker spaniel, the other a Scottish terrier...
Motor knocks are caused by a part of the fuel burning too rapidly, causing pressure and temperature changes characterized by a sharp "ping." Knocking quality is measured in octane, a 100% antiknock laboratory fluid. Most regular-grade automobile gas is about 70 octane. By polymerization Phillips Pete developed 100 octane gas-useless for modern automobiles but invaluable for airplane engines, which must get maximum efficiency and sudden "burst" response on take-off or emergencies. Howard Hughes used 100 octane gas provided by Standard Oil on part of his round-the-world flight, and it is increasingly in demand in military...
...Giauque measured the capillary flow of liquid helium through a channel only one-ten-thousandth of one centimetre wide. He obtained such a low value for the viscosity at one degree above that he concluded there would be no fluid friction whatever at the utter cold of absolute zero...