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Free Tests Sirs: In TIME, Feb. 15, under the heading "Great Pox," Nevada, together with three other States, is blacklisted for not affording free laboratory examinations to physicians in the diagnosis of syphilis and gonorrhea. To my personal knowledge our State Laboratory, which is under the control of the State University, has extended such service for the past 14 years and I understand, from reliable sources, since 1909. Last year 4,633 blood tests for syphilis and 1,130 examinations for gonorrhea were performed free of charge for the physicians of this State...
There was no doubt last week, however, that the sun was working up a fine case of sunspot pox. Sunspot activity waxes & wanes in cycles of about eleven years. A new cycle started in 1933, its peak is expected in 1939. Sunspots appear to be the mouths of whirling funnels of gas originating in the solar interior. It has been suggested that the shifting combination of gravitational pulls exerted by the planets is the cause of the internal commotion which gives rise to sunspots...
...Quarantinable diseases which prevent radio pratique are: cholera, leprosy, yellow fever, anthrax, typhus fever, smallpox, plague (bubonic, pneumonic or septicemic), parrot fever. In addition to those diseases, in which the Government has special interest, New York City will prevent radio pratique if a ship harbors chicken pox, diphtheria, dysentery (amebic or bacillary), epidemic encephalitis, German measles, measles, meningococcus meningitis, mumps, paratyphoid fever, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, or whooping cough. Only ships regularly in the following services may use radio pratique: between New York and European ports, between East and West coasts...
...Europe, syphilis was lumped with leprosy and other skin troubles, was given no special recognition. In 1493 a great plague of syphilis spread out of Naples, apparently carried there by Spanish troopers. Up to that time the disease had no specific name, was thereafter referred to as the Great Pox. In 1530 Girolamo Fracastoro, an Italian, produced a Latin poem entitled Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. Its hero, a shepherd named Syphilus was smitten with the Great Pox. Thus did this ancient disease finally get a literary name...
...fateful feature of this meeting that British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, officially described as "weakened by his recent attack of chicken pox," had just gone from Geneva to Monte Carlo "to regain his strength"; that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was in his third month of "resting in the country"; and that the British Chairman of the International Committee, Treasury Expert William ("Shakespeare") Morrison, was at Geneva...