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DDT. The U.S. Army proved at Naples that its new DDT (real name censored) delousing powder is the best typhus-preventive yet discovered, better than steam or typhus vaccine. Colonel William E. Stone of Pocatello, Idaho, one of the men who helped develop it, said that DDT may put an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meeting in Algiers | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

To protect troops going into areas where the plague bacillus exists, the Army & Navy often give injections of an anti-plague vaccine. As this vaccine is not a perfect protection and wears off in six months, the services rely chiefly on powders and sprays to keep off fleas, and their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bubonic in Suez | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Though U.S. troops are protected by vaccine and anti-louse powder, the Allied Military Government declared Naples "off limits" for troops, settled down to trying to fight the scourge which has hit 250 people in the gutted town. In charge of the Naples district for AMG: Colonel Edgar Erskine Hume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Typhus in Naples | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

Smallpox Vaccine is usually credited to the English country doctor Edward Jenner, who first used it in 1796. But it had been discovered nearly a hundred years before by a Greek named Timoni.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Who Discovered What? | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Many experienced dermatologists last week read Dr. Straumfjord's claims with an interest tempered with skepticism. Most of them have fought acne with vaccine injections, soaps, yeast, X rays, ultraviolet rays, lectures against picking, antiseptics, astringents, medicated creams, diets, vitamins, hormones, encouragement. They have seen one case yield to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A for Acne | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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