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Thaddeus Fairbanks invented the platform scale in St. Johnsbury, Vt. in 1830. It was the first substantial improvement in the art of weighing since the Romans developed the graduated steelyard. Before he died, the taciturn, ingenious Vermonter was honored as one of the great inventors of the 19th Century. He...
BELIEVING that the course of events since 1929 has "developed among people a new curiosity and a keener critical sense" three members of the English faculty of the California Institute of Technology have published a collection of essays and entitled this "welter of conflicting opinion" "These United States." These articles...
Last week a Paris dispatch reported another and possibly more effective attack on yellow fever. Immunologist Jean Laigret of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis announced that he had successfully vaccinated 3,000 individuals against yellow fever at Dakar, French West Africa, which is achieving business importance as a French hop...
Dr. Laigret, an enterprising man, tried unsuccessfully to get authority to inoculate Frenchmen with mouse-brain virus alone. In Tunis he was successful. When vaccinated Tunisians showed suspicious reactions (fever, hemorrhages). Dr. Laigret decided that he had used unduly big doses, and moved to French West Africa. The success which...
After convincing the director of the Pastcur Institute in Tunis of the efficacy of the vaccine,and gaining the permission of the governor of West Africa, 3,000 whites were successfully inoculated against the dread yellow fever. The Pasteur Institute of Paris is being urged to begin production of the...