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...Emmet Kennard Knott, a Seattle physicist and X-ray dealer, began to experiment with the effect of ultraviolet rays on the blood of dogs. In a local veterinary hospital he infected dogs with streptococci and staphylococci, withdrew a large amount of blood from their veins, irradiated it under an ultraviolet lamp, and put it back in circulation. Theoretically, the rays should have killed the germs. Instead, they killed the dogs...
...winter night, after several months of this kind of thing, stubborn Mr. Knott went down to the dog hospital with a doctor friend. The veterinary was busy, and sent Mr. Knott out to a shed to do his work. The dog was violently ill, the shed was cold, the light poor. So Mr. Knott irradiated only a small amount of blood, bundled up the dog, went home...
...that the dog was well. As it must on all researchers, an intimation dawned on him: he had been giving his dogs too much irradiation; ultraviolet rays in large amounts are deadly, in tiny amounts have natural curative power. Hotfoot to the dog pound for more dogs went Mr. Knott...
Superintendent of Floyd County schools today is Town Hall-a Caney Creek boy. Another is Knott County Attorney Dan Martin, whose hillbilly background has acquired a veneer that would make a Hatfield or a McCoy groan in his grave. He is a Harvard...
...these blessings Knott County mountaineers thank aging Alice Lloyd-now 63, hale & hearty in her sweater-&-skirt director's uniform. But for all their education, there is still life in the mountaineers of Caney Valley. Out of sheer high spirits, on moonlight, moonshine Saturday nights they occasionally put a bullet or two through the gateway sign, pepper the headmistress's house with slugs...