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...damaging term as "black and tan" is not employed. The logical sequence, of course will be the "blind puppie" where, for two or three times the ordinary price, one may still feel the thrill of quietly whispering to the man behind the counter: "One hot-dog plenty of mustard...
Lieutenant Colonel Edward B. Vedder, of the Army Medical Corps, found that guinea pigs inoculated with tuberculosis bacilli and a concentration of mustard gas did not develop the disease although other " control" animals, without...
...sight; but the time has arrived when poison gas is put to constructive use. The army chemists have joined the ranks of those scientists who are endeavoring; by taking thought, to add a year to man's three score and ten. They have discovered curative properties in chlorine, mustard gas and lewisite...
...seemed immune from the prevalent epidemic of those diseases. Lewisite has been used in direct experiment with good results upon persons inflicted with locomotor ataxia. The much abused guinea pig was cured of a severe attack of tuberculosis by inhaling a very small quantity of the burning mustard...
...electric currents internally, known as " diathermy," is no novelty in many diseases, and external heat-producing agents, such as mustard plasters, have been well-known old-fashioned remedies in pneumonia treatment, but this particular application is still in the experimental stage, although several New York specialists are using similar methods. The current is applied through two electric plates, one fitted to the back and one to the chest. The current flows directly through the lungs without burning the skin or causing dangerous fever elsewhere in the body, and is believed to raise the temperature within the lungs themselves to about...