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Announcements were made from Copenhagen and Washington of remarkable improvement in cases of general paresis (a degenerative disease of the brain, usually fatal, and caused by syphilis in the central nervous system) by the introduction of Plasmodium vivax, the germ of tertian malaria. Authorities in a Danish insane asylum have been experimenting with the method for five years and claim to have obtained absolute cures...
...recent announcement of the discovery of the influenza germ at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, broadcasted by radio from the New York State Department of Health and given wide newspaper publicity, has on second thought, like so many other much-heralded scientific events, turned out to be less exciting than was at first supposed. The Journal of the American Medical Association, official organ of the medical profession in the United States, carries an editorial stating the residue of facts in the case, on the authority of Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Institute...
...should not be confused with African sleeping sickness, which is transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, but is a frequent accompaniment of influenza and other winter diseases. Dr. Frank J. Monaghan, who has just succeeded Senator Copeland as New York's health commissioner, believes that the germ or other cause of the disease can be found, and has put his laboratory men on its trail. Doctors reporting cases are filling out questionnaires for an intensive study. "' The best ways to avoid it," says the Commissioner, " are to keep away from influenza patients and observe the commonsense...
...cent remained unchanged. It is too early and the data are too meager to make definite predictions of the success of X-ray treatment. The doctors are unable to give a rational explanation of the result, but do not believe it to be due to any direct germ-killing power of the rays...
...discussion of topics related to the course. "Discussion" implies two things: participation by a group, and material to be considered from-various points of view; in this case, a voluntary applying of criteria and comparison of one author or work or method with another. Here, then, is the germ of genuine "appreciation". If all our literary courses could be turned into English 28 Clubs, there would be no further fear of confusing Service with Shelley, or F. Scott Fitzgerald with the translator of Omar Khayyam...