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Last week Dr. H. Harris Perlman and co-workers of Jewish Hospital in Philadelphia reported in the A.M.A. Journal tests with Daphnia which showed that smoking does not harm a nursing mother if the mother smoked before her child was born, because 1) the baby apparently cannot get enough nicotine that way to hurt him, 2) before he is born he develops a tolerance for nicotine from the nicotine in his mother's blood. The doctors insist their findings are no argument for prospective mothers to take up smoking...
...bomb exploded in the center' of State Street," Dr. Henry B. Perlman of the University of Chicago told a meeting of ear, eye and throat doctors in Chicago, "85% of the middle-ear injuries would be due to the shock pulse itself, only 15% to bomb fragments. Excluding other injuries, everyone within 50 feet would likely have ruptured eardrums with bleeding from the ear. . . . Among those in stores facing the street within this radius but shielded from the shock pulse by wall, door or partition, only half of i% would have ear injuries...
...result of experiments with a pistol, a mirror and the small-boned mechanism of a freshly dissected ear (with which he made the first motion pictures ever taken of the human hearing mechanism in action) Dr. Perlman and his associates showed that the ear damage caused by explosions is due to a shock pulse which occurs so swiftly that the normal protective devices of the ear do not have time to work. Their conclusions about how best to save ears from damage by exploding bombs and the firing of big guns...
...plugs are helpful but jammed in too tight may become sound conductors. "Covering or plugging the ear," adds Dr. Perlman, "deafens it for ordinary sound and your life may depend on your ability to hear commands...
...after 10 o'clock when the instructions of delegates in regard to policy came up. Perlman read and argued for the following resolution: "Resolved. That the Harvard Student Union condemns the Russian aggression against Finland, and at the same time condemns those who would use this incident in an attempt to drag us into...