Word: typhoidal
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...Colonel Abraham Neuwirth, a U.S. Army medical officer on leave, is health adviser (TIME, Nov. 9). Smallpox, typhus and typhoid epidemics are continuous. Seven out of every ten Persian children die before they are nine years old. The Government refused to order compulsory inoculations, fearing that the hungry people would revolt. Best Neuwirth could get was inoculation of the entire Persian army. With the backing of the Prime Minister, Neuwirth has finally won approval for a closed water system to replace Teheran's open ditches, contaminated by street sweepings, garbage, dogs, horses, filthy humanity...
...bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile has a loose tubular jacket which sticks in the rubber lining and keeps the hole open. > Agar-agar, gelatinous medium essential for growing bacteria in the preparation of vaccines against typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and whooping cough, was practically a Japanese monopoly before Pearl Harbor. Japs quietly got much of it from seaweed beds along the U.S. Pacific coast, taking care that no one else knew the location. The University of California has now discovered four species of California seaweed rich...
...Davis & Co., which does Detroit's blood processing for the Red Cross, developed a way to use the remainder to make peptone-bacteria food ordinarily made from various animal proteins (like hog's stomach, etc.). This new human peptone feeds bacteria cultures grown to make tetanus toxoid, typhoid vaccines and other shots for the armed forces...
...eight years ago most U.S. doctors paid little attention to arthritis. Typical treatments included injection of streptococcic and typhoid vaccines, dietary fads, bee venom serum, manipulation of gnarled hands and joints. Such treatments have now been largely discarded. More important, several different forms of arthritis have been clearly distinguished, each with its special therapy. Three recently developed blood tests also indicate what sort of arthritis a patient...
...printed in this morning's Scuttle-butt, all S-O's are scheduled to take a series of shots and vaccines before they leave in late August. Each man is to be given two tetanus shots, three typhoid injections, one yellow fever shot, and a small pox vaccination...