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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burmese border. Undoubtedly, along with my own parents and all the population of unconquered China, she has endured the horrors of Japanese bombing raids. Ahead of her, even if China should win, is only anonymous drudgery; if taken by the Japanese she will fare no better than the other human loot of captured cities...
...University brought hopeful data last week. In Science they reported that "extracts of normal male urine," injected in small amounts, "are very potent in inhibiting gastric secretion" of dogs. What the inhibiting agent of urine was, they could not say, nor did they venture to predict its effect on human beings...
Crouching, howling, blind-running, wall-climbing are symptoms of running fits, or fright disease in dogs. Although fits, unlike rabies (a deadly virus disease), cannot be transmitted from dogs to human beings, the convulsions are so alarmingly violent that more than 100,000 innocent dogs with fits are destroyed every year. Last week in Veterinary Medicine, scholarly Dr. John W. Patton of East Lansing, Mich, published an illuminating report on the cause & cure of fits...
Since dogs deprived of vitamins C, D and G develop scurvy, rickets and pellagra just like human beings, Dr. Patton believed that he had discovered the canine equivalent of beriberi (vitamin B1 deficiency disease). To test his belief he took 13 healthy puppies from his own kennels, fed them nothing but water and heavy dog food mixed with all the vitamins but B1. Within a week the dogs shunned the food, lost weight. They avoided light, trembled and cringed when patted, climbed walls, fell backward, howled constantly. When offered food, they fell forward into their pans...
...total weight of the radiosonde is only 18 ounces. Air pressure is obtained by a pair of small aneroid bellows; the temperature, by a bimetallic strip which coils with change in temperature; and the humidity, by a single human hair. Each of the three instruments is fitted with a needle which touches a wire, sending out a radio signal by means of a micro-transmitting set. The significance of the signals depends on the time between them. The measurement of this time interval by the operators on the ground provides all the needed information...