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...addition of these lighter eight men is expected to inject a little more speed and shiftiness into the team. Daily scrimmages this week have shown that the squad has plenty of weight but lacks speed, especially in the backfield. To make up for this, Coach Boston has been trying out a few players from the better-than-average and squad in back-field positions...
Oxygen. Five years ago, Anesthetist John Henry Evans of Buffalo began to inject oxygen under the skin of swollen joints, to dull pain. He discovered that the oxygen often "has beneficial effects" on early arthritis and other inflammations of nerves, muscles, joints. Said Dr. Evans: "Within 24 hours . . . after injection . . . the local temperature drops; the redness disappears; the swelling is reduced, and the tissues become much less sensitive to pressure...
...League composed of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Army, Navy, and Columbia would be a tremendous boom to football. It would be a last remaining stronghold of amateurism and would inject new life blood into all the member institutions...
...William Rake of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. They obtain active virus from the blood or throat washings of measly moppets, treat this material with ether or by filtering to remove bacteria, pass it into chicken eggshells through a small hole made with a dentist's drill, inject it into the chick embryo's outer membrane. After allowing four or five days for the virus to propagate, they open the eggs, remove the membrane, grind it, mix it with broth, centrifuge it (a centrifuge is a high-speed whirling machine which acts like a cream separator...
...bulk of chiropodic practice consists of corn trimming. Last week Podiatrists James S. Bowman and Robert E. Fowler of Temple University School reported a new way of removing corns by injection. They inject solutions of a bismuth compound or salt water or even sterile water around the margin of the corn, thus choking off the tiny blood vessels which feed it. After several injections, the corn dissolves. This treatment, they cautioned, is still in an experimental stage...