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Yellow Jack (by Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif; Guthrie McClintic. producer). After the Spanish-American War, in which more U. S. soldiers were killed by yellow fever than in battle, the War Department sent a medical commission to Cuba to find, if possible, the cause and cure of this deadly tropical disease. The commission was headed by Dr. Walter Reed. With him was Dr. James Carroll. In Cuba they found Dr. Jesse W. Lazear, European-trained microbiologist, and Cuban Dr. Aristides Agramonte...
...soldiers who were bitten by mosquitoes contracted yellow jack, it amounted to Science's first important victory over yellow fever, the beginning of the final extermination of that plague. The history of the Yellow Fever Commission made one of the most exciting chapters in Paul de Kruif's brilliant Microbe Hunters.* In the theatre, Sidney Howard retells it in 29 scenes played without an intermission against an "essentialist"' setting devised by Jo Mielziner. The background of the stage, a flight of stairs surmounted by a sort of cage to represent a laboratory, does not change...
...characters and of facts as such . . . might conceivably result in a play's being as interesting as the morning paper. ... I first heard the story of this play from my father. ... I first thought of using it for a play when I read it again in Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters. . . . Paul de Kruif and I were long ago associated as contributors to Hearst's International Magazine when he was writing a series of articles on problems of medicine and I, God save us!, was writing a series on the evils of dope in the underworld...
Keep on pointing out that value no longer arises, as in Marx's day, from labour but from the Cultural Heritage (ref P. de Kruif's writing on wheat, and Mark Carleton...
...Miami Valley Hospital workers were Dr. Walter Malcolm Simpson (president of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists), Dr. Frederick Karl Kislig (syphilologist) and Edwin C. Sittler (one of Mr. Kettering's men). Paul de Kruif. writing bacteriologist, originally gave them the idea of using the radiotherm to treat syphilis. He thought the precisely regulated fevers it generates would be better than the malaria-induced fevers used by Nobel Laureate J. Wagner Jauregg...