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Harvard last week took its place beside the U. S. Public Health Service as a victor in man's fight against typhus fever. Surgeon Rolla Eugene Dyer, U.S. P. H. S., after letting rat fleas feed on his leg, last year produced a vaccine efficacious against the mild, flea-borne typhus which occurs along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (TIME, Nov. 7, et ante). Harvard's Professor Hans Zinsser has been developing a vaccine and serum against the louse-carried, virulent type of typhus which constantly threatens to invade the U. S. from Eastern Europe and Mexico. Last...
...Smith was one of four U. S. Public Health Service scientists whom Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming brought to Manhattan last week to lecture before the New York Electrical Society's science forum. The others: flea-bitten Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer, discoverer of the cause of typhus fever in the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 7); tick-bitten Dr. Roscoe Roy ("Spenny") Spencer, who invented a new kind of vaccine (macerated insects which carry the virus of disease) and tried it out first on himself; Dr. Carl Voegtlin, pharmacologist, who has accumulated so many facts about the chemistry of cell...
...pair, a white Panama hat at $40, cloth coat at $420, dresses at $225 and $250, and perfumery at $25 or $15, as necessaries for my wife." Ill lay: Mrs- John Work Garrett, of bronchial influenza, in Baltimore; Charles Spencer Chaplin, of food poisoning, in Hollywood; Dr, Rolla Eugene Dyer, typhus fever expert of the U. S. Public Health Service, of typhus fever, in Washington ; Edward Beale McLean in Paris...
Typhus has persisted in cities along the U. S. Atlantic and Gulf coast despite sanitary precautions. It has at times erupted in communities without a lousy inhabitant. Perhaps some other bug transmits the disease, thought Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the Public Health Service. With associates he began the study of typhus ab initio...
...department store, then a vast phonograph factory, in which mass production and prison methods are satirically interlined. The second convict, Emile (Henri Marchand), free at last, a wistful champion of the bill of rights, is jailed again for singing to flowers. Again he escapes, chases a pretty girl (Rolla France) into the phonograph factory, is herded into line, disrupts the phonograph-assembling routine with his fumbling individualism, finally confronts the phonograph tycoon, his old convict pal, disrupting also his routine. The plot now begins to spin like a pinwheel. Blackmailers, a love interest, the police, a fabulous Magic Park...