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Snafu is when the supply ship arrives and the stuff on the bottom should have been on top. Snafu is when radio receiving sets arrive at a jungle camp without batteries. Snafu is when a regiment unloads its trucks overseas and finds most of them so worn that they are...
"FrontLine Girl Friends." Gravest menace to the wounded soldier is not his wound itself but the triple threat of shock, infection and delay-each of which once killed more men than flying bits of metal. In Russia, as elsewhere, plasma transfusions have reduced effects of shock, which is essentially a...
Dr. Neuwirth is also using the egg-culture method in an attempt to produce the world's first vaccine against trachoma, an infectious eye disease common throughout the Middle East; and he is trying to develop a bacteriophage ("bacteria-eater") solution to treat those already afflicted. Last month the...
When chunky, fast-talking Dr. Neuwirth reached Iran last May to become medical adviser to the Government, swarms of Polish refugees from Russia were pouring into the country-unwashed, lousy, probably infected with typhus. Iranians feared an epidemic. At Teheran's Pasteur Institute, Dr. Neuwirth taught Iranian technicians to...
"Bagdad boils." On leishmania vaccine, Dr. Neuwirth ran into a new difficulty. Iran is not rich in chickens, and he could not find enough eggs to make the quantities of leishmania vaccine he needed. So he ground up chick embryos, watered them down with a saline solution and added this...