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...Murray Sanders of Manhattan got to work as soon as keratoconjunctivitis showed itself, announced last October that he had isolated the disease virus. Last week, with Dr. Alson Braley, he wrote in the Journal of the A.M.A. that he had tried injections of blood serum from convalescent cases on ten patients. Results: he achieved "striking clinical improvement" in nine of the ten, six of whom were cured in 48 hours...
...cholera is the most destructive. Symptoms are fever, loss of appetite, weakness (hog looks "lost in thought"), thirst. No cure is known, and pigs usually die within ten days. But cholera can be prevented by inoculating young pigs with anti-hog-cholera serum supplemented with a dose of the virus. Farmers should not put off immunization until cholera is reported near by: then it is too late...
...Swine erysipelas causes unusually high temperatures (normal for swine: 103°-104° F.), stiff gait, enlarged joints, red spots on skin, sudden death. If caught early, anti-swine erysipelas serum may help...
...mercy around the world. In the last three years the Red Cross has distributed $63,000,000 worth of supplies in war-torn countries. To Great Britain have gone: hospital equipment, medical and surgical supplies, clothing for civilians bombed out of their homes; to Russia: bandages, anti-gangrene serum, insulin; to China: quinine, vitamin tablets, cracked wheat; to France: clothing, flour, chocolate...
...mobile smoke-generator which vomits white clouds large enough to conceal whole cities has been developed by General Electric. The process is still secret. > Paper parachutes for loads up to 50 lb. are replacing expensive chutes of scarce silk and nylon. The Civil Air Patrol drops food, serum and other emergency supplies with tough, crepe-paper chutes made by Dennison Manufacturing Co. > Recent entrant in the unending race between projectiles and armor is a bullet to shoot holes in so-called bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile...