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...artificial propagation the Department of Agriculture now hopes to spread it ten times as fast. At the U.S. Beetle Control Station at Moorestown, N.J., technicians infect healthy grubs with it, pampering them until the bacteria multiply profusely. Then they grind up the diseased grubs and mix them with talc so the hardy bacteria spores can be conveniently handled and sprinkled in fields...
Scientists who have been experimenting with poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) virus have been considerably hampered because the only animal they could infect was the expensive rhesus monkey. Last year Dr. Charles Armstrong of the U. S. Public Health Service finally succeeded in giving polio to ordinary cotton rats. That hurdle passed, he was able to pass the infection from cotton rats to mice...
...University of Rochester, shocked the medical world with some dismal after-facts on sulfanilamide and gonorrhea. It is true, said they, that the drug removes the symptoms of gonorrhea. But patients often harbor the germs long after they are pronounced cured, thus becoming "gonorrhea carriers," able to infect other people, though apparently hale themselves...
Carriers, the doctors went on, infect their wives after a "socalled sulfanilamide cure," make "absolutely symptomless carriers" of them too. How long the stubborn germs persist, how they can be conquered, the doctors do not know...
Probably no man alive more guilelessly enjoys hearing himself talk on paper, or is better able to infect others with the pleasure, than Henry Louis Mencken. Happy Days, his account of his childhood, is a set of 20 essays. They are as rosily extrovert a record of a human being's first twelve years as ever transcended fatuousness. They are also (with occasional slackenings) museum pieces in the good old Mencken bravura at its brassiest. For all its mannerisms and unsubtleties, the Mencken vernacular is extraordinarily vigorous and fine U. S. prose...