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...Rochester and Kristian Gosta Hansson of Cornell. To physical therapists convened in Cincinnati last week Dr. Hansson described a machine designed by himself and his associate which pumps blood out of one arm, irradiates it with germicidal ultraviolet rays, puts it back in the other arm. Citrate of sodium introduced into the blood as it leaves the vein prevents coagulation. ''It is for the future," said Dr. Hansson, "to show what can be accomplished. One difficulty in experiments was that we didn't know the safe amount of radiation to give the patient. Another was to prevent...
Most effective counterattack is to spread poison bait, usually a mixture of bran, sawdust and sodium arsenite. Colorado Entomologist S. C. McCampbell has designed a mechanical spreader which. manned by three men, does the work of 25 men with shovels. Some farmers put their faith in the "hopper dozer," a shallow tank about 20 ft. wide, filled with kerosene, which is mounted on wheels or runners and pulled along by a horse at each end. Rising from the back edge of the tank is a screen of tin or oilcloth. At the approach of the "dozer" the grasshoppers leap into...
...While he, with Assistants Dean H. Echols and Harry J. Richter experimented on methods of completely covering the olfactory nerve ends, Dr. Schultz, with help of Chemist L. P. Gebhardt, sought chemicals which might be more effective than alum. They decided on a solution of 1% zinc sulphate, 0.5% sodium chloride and 1% pontocaine, hydrochloride (a local anesthetic) in distilled water...
...William D. McNally, University of Chicago toxicologist and lieutenant-colonel of the Chemical Warfare Reserve Corps, recommends a 0.4% solution of sodium sulphite in a mixture of 75% glycerin and 25% water as an antidote for tear gas in the eyes. For burns made on the skin by the gas, Dr. McNally recommends liberal dousing with alcohol, glycerin, or (best) a solution of sodium sulphite in 50% alcohol...
...names of common drugs which make habitual users permanently hard of hearing was the most immediately useful information presented at the convention of the American Otological Society at Long Beach, L. I. last week. Those drugs are, according to Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla.: quinine, salicylates (aspirin, sodium salicylate), tobacco, alcohol, opium, arsenic (salvarsan), lead, mercury, phosphorus, oil of chenopodium, aniline dyes, insulin...