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...rafters where the night-flying mosquitoes rest. The sprayers are all lads of good caste, so no highborn Hindu will be outraged by their attentions to his residence, outhouse and cowshed, each of which must be re-sprayed every week or so. First night after spraying all mosquitoes vanish...
...comes from a Southern minority within the college, many Northern students have taken the stand that introduction of the new plan would not be worth the disturbance it would cause. This, in itself, is not an argument but a weak, defensive stall. The problem of color discrimination will not vanish in time like a seven-year locust; instead its pressure will grow more and more as Negroes contribute to the preservation of the four freedoms. Princeton, far from being a pioneer, would be one of the last Northern universities to fall in line; and the only means of proving...
...cure an ivy-poisoned soldier, one-tenth of a cc. of the extract (diluted with one cc. of salt solution) is injected intramuscularly. Burning sensations vanish within two to 24 hours, all blistering within two to five days, and no hospitalization is needed. The average untreated case suffers from one to three weeks, often in a hospital. Sergeant Shapiro's extract cannot prevent ivy poisoning; it desensitizes skin only after an attack. Applied externally, it produces a fine case of poison ivy itself...
...reproduce themselves like living organisms. A virus "generation" probably lasts for only 20 to 30 minutes, so that an eon of virus evolution can occur within a few years on the human time scale. New and fiercer breeds of virus can thus develop from time to time, then vanish. Doctors believe that the virus which caused the worldwide influenza plague of 1918 is still with us, but the once deadly old stock is relatively decadent...
Gonorrhea. Some 80% acute (i.e., new) gonorrheal infections can be cleaned up by a single massive intravenous dose of sulfathiazole, reports the Military Surgeon. All the symptoms do not vanish at once, but no further treatment is needed, and the soldier-patient can return to duty the day after medication...