Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That soap and hot water will kill pneumococci, streptococci, gonococci, meningococci, diphtheria bacilli, and the syphilis spirochete, doctors have long known. Last week in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Bacteriologists Charles Chester Stock and Thomas Francis Jr. of New York University told of their successful experiments in making influenza vaccine from virus and soap solution...
They minced the virus-choked lungs of mice infected with flu, made a brew so powerful that it killed healthy mice even if diluted a million times. But when a suspension of virus was mixed with equal amounts of hand-soap or a fatty acid solution, allowed to stand for 90 minutes, and injected into scores of normal mice, none of them came down with flu. In fact, said the scientists, once vaccinated, the mice easily withstood huge doses of straight virus...
Exactly how the soap works-whether it dissolves the "armor" of the virus, or clutches it in a chemical grip-Drs. Stock & Francis have not yet discovered. Nor are they quite ready to try their mixture as a vaccine on human beings...
Whale oil, unfortunately for whales, is especially valuable in war. It is a cheap source of fats for soap and margarine, and baleen whales yield glycerin for explosives. In World War I, up to 1917, Britain bought 660,000 bbl. of baleen oil for $185 a ton (normal: $120-125 a ton). At that time blockaded Germany was paying $1,500 a ton for such oil as she could get. This time, Britain contracted to take all the Norwegian oil for margarine. Next autumn, whether Norway is German-dominated or not, her great fleet of whaling ships will...
...cancer could be prevented. All moles, warts, cysts, burn scars, chronic infections and irritations "should be regarded with suspicion." Exposure to sunshine is a hazard only if it continues day in, day out, year after year, as in the case of farmers and sailors. Best protection against skin cancer: "soap, water and scrubbing...