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...Meyer Naide of the University of Pennsylvania last week told* of an experimental treatment which worked on nine out of 15 patients: as a chronic ulcer does not get enough blood from inside, he supplied it from outside by a spray of blood drawn from the patient or dried blood plasma diluted with only one fourth the usual amount of water. This poultice dried to form a clot over the ulcer; treatments were repeated as needed to retain the scab. One or two applications relieved pain; the ulcers which healed required from one to 20 treatments...
Aldrich Durant, one of the first men on the spot, was evidently mistaken for legitimate game by the fire-fighters and was doused in the spray...
...broad Tidal Basin, the new Jefferson Monument shimmered in the thin April sunlight. A stiff spring breeze cut through the tall, white marble pillars, swept over the austere white marble dome, bent the yew and dogwood trees clustered near by. Now & again the wind shook a film of spray over the broad steps; against the marble columns it tossed puffs of cherry blossoms and coal smoke from the railroad tracks...
...expected that the lecture will represent the very latest news from the ARP front, especially the answer to the controversy over the spray or jet method of dealing with incendiary bombs. Fire-fighting, explosives, and gas will also be treated in the intensified course. If this unique lecture is successful the audience should have a firm foundation for future ARP activities...
Their craft was an eggshell hull, without spars or sails or engine, riding the gale-lashed sea. She was, you might say, like a fishing trawler with never a thing in or on her. The storm was sweeping down from the northwest and snow mingled with the icy, driven spray, blotting out the weak northern...