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...Over the first four days she was given six large blood transfusions (the last three of blood serum alone), as well as moderate injections of salt and sugar water. In nine days she was out of danger; in two months, neatly patched with skin grafts, she was "completely healed." The "complex regimen" of "properly balanced fluids" and blood transfusions, said Dr. Trusler last week, saved her life. "No local application [of tannic acid]," he warned, ". . . or forcing of water . . . can be expected to save life after a large burn...
...great number of cases, paralyzed muscles can be toned up if they are gently coaxed into action as soon as the acute stage of the disease has passed (usually four or five weeks after first symptoms). Most popular form of exercise is warm water swimming, skillfully taught at President Roosevelt's "other home": Warm Springs, Ga. Less publicized, but requiring less equipment and equally effective is stimulation of muscle contraction by electric current. A large, "indifferent" electrode is placed over the spine, and a smaller, "active" one over a paralyzed muscle. The current is turned on and the muscle...
Already released to 5,000 schools throughout the U. S., as well as to a scattering of record shops, Then Came War: 1939 is the first of a planned series, The Sound of History. On the fire: Russia v. Finland...
Absolutely, Jimmy Bowen had done a sweetheart of a reporting job, the first of its sort the world had ever heard. President Roosevelt heard it in his library at Hyde Park. A United Air Lines pilot, flying 11,000 feet over Nebraska, picked it up with his auxiliary receiver, relayed it in bits to his passengers. Jimmy's story reached Timbuctu and Berlin as well, putting the Propaganda Ministry's nose completely out of joint. In Washington, Jimmy's mother heard his voice-for the first time in years...
...Christmas ritual of Poland, the first rising star of Christmas Eve is greeted with the glad kolenda (carol) Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy (In the Stillness of the Night). Then the family hastens to table and partakes of the great Christmas wafer, symbol of brotherly love and forgiveness. Another kolenda, Bracia, Patrzcie Jeno (Brothers, Look Ahead), asks a blessing on this rite (and on a plow concealed under the table, so that the land, too, may be blessed). At pasterka, or midnight mass, the swelling Gdy się Chrystus Rodzi (When Christ the Lord is Born) is sung, and the carolers take...