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...causes coagulation of the blood. There is a third principle not yet isolated, said Professor Alvaro, which affects only the eyes. Patients treated for severe snake bite complained of darkening of sight or even temporary blindness. Patients who were less severely bitten and who had suffered from circulatory or muscular disturbances in their eyes reported that their vision was greatly improved. Professor Alvaro has not yet been successful in isolating the specific eye principle, has used only small injections of diluted complete venom, or mixtures of various types of venom. Injection of venom under the conjunctiva (delicate membrane covering...
...singing his ballads, charmed the Great Charmer. His tenor voice is honey smooth. His quick mind and tongue have a tenoctave range, from airiest wit to profoundest judicial deliberation. He handles people as a virtuoso plays a violin. Beneath his silkiness lies a mental toughness, a counterpart of the muscular toughness that enabled him to build a cabin on Mt. Washington with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier and climber, lets him work 20 hours a day for weeks at a stretch. His shock of water-spaniel hair is greying but he still looks young...
Tricinella spiralis is a microscopic roundworm that enters the human digestive system in undercooked pork, and burrows into the lining of the small intestine. Result: abdominal pains, diarrhea, muscular tenderness, even high fever, delirium and coma. Trichinae, which rarely infect children, may remain with a patient till the end of his life, often wander in the spinal fluid, lungs, heart, retinas and milk of nursing mothers. Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Archibald L. Hoyne and Abraham Alvin Wolf of Chicago reported a new form of trichinosis in an eleven-month-old Negro baby...
...active principle of these oils, reduced it to its pure, crystalline form. Vitamin E regulates cell division, increases the number and strength of the offspring, promotes growth. Lack of this vitamin results in malnutrition of the embryo and abortion in the female, destruction of germ cells in the male, muscular paralysis in the young. Isolation of Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) from natural oils is difficult and expensive, but last winter Chemist Paul Karrer of Switzerland synthesized it from coal tar. Dr. Evans promptly fed alpha tocopherol to sterile rats, and this week he told the International Physiological Congress at Zurich...
Died. Samuel Carson Pirie, 74, yacht-racing board chairman and son of one of the founders of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago's second largest department store (largest: Marshall Field & Co.); of chronic myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart); at Newport, R. I. Sportsman Pirie's brother John Taylor Pirie, 66, is the store's president, Son Samuel Carson Pirie Jr. is in its retail merchandising division, Second Cousin Samuel Pirie Carson is store operations manager. There are five other Piries, all kin, no other Carsons, in Carson Pirie Scott. Of Scotts there...