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...years ago on Long Island, Mrs Lucy F. Kirk, 54, was driving with her son Payton when their automobile collided with one driven by George Cisler The Cisler automobile was damaged. A doctor examined Mrs. Kirk, found her apparently seriously injured. A Christian Scientist, she declined medical attention summoned, instead, a paid healer to pray over her and read from Mary Bakei Eddy's Science & Health. Mrs. Kirk made what looked like a complete recovery but later she said she suffered from headaches, a pain in the nose and tremors of the left hand. She had made good money...
...announcement three weeks ago that three volunteers were allowing themselves to be bitten by mosquitoes to test whether the insects were the cause of St. Louis' encephalitis epidemic (TIME, Sept. 25): publication of the heroes' names- Dr. James Payton Leake, director of the investigations; Dr. Louis Laval Williams Jr., authority on the transmission of disease by insects; Dr. Bruce Mayne, English-born expert in malaria research. St. Louis Health Commissioner Joseph Francis Bredeck declared the epidemic over. Toll since July: over 1,000 cases, 194 deaths...
Last week Dr. James Payton Leake, Federal epidemiologist, declared it too early to estimate the extent of the disease's aftereffects, commonly tragic, in St. Louis. But its active ravages were enough to bring U. S. Surgeon-General Hugh Smith Gumming to St. Louis, and for him to order twelve more of his U. S. Public-Health Service experts to join the three already there. It made him decide to ask President Roosevelt for $25,000 from the $400,000 Federal fund for combating epi- demics. In the laboratories of Washington and St. Louis Universities medical scientists worked desperately...
Last fortnight Dr. James Payton Leake of the U.S. Public Health Service and Dr. Eldred Kenneth Musson, State epidemiologist, arrived in St. Louis, began whipping physicians and Washington University scientists into committees for field work, laboratory study, preparation of case-history questionnaires. The U.S. Public Health Service planned to spend $10,000 in research. After careful study, spreading by food, water or milk seemed ruled out. So did case-to-case infection. Only two families had more than one case, and there was no other known contact between sufferers. Dr. Leake thought the evidence indicated transmission by a carrier, human...
...Damon '34, second assistant manager of soccer; Hugh 11. Babcock '35, freshman soccer manager; H. A. Spalding '34, assistant football manager; Andrew E. Ritchie, Jr. '34, second assistant football manager; John F. Madden '34, house teams football manager; W. M. Nichols '32, manager of varsity squash to succeed Payton Murray who resigned...