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...epidemic," is engaging the attention of New York health authorities. Since January 1 over 112 deaths from the disease have been reported in Greater New York, the rate having intensified within the past week. This malady should not be confused with African sleeping sickness, which is transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, but is a frequent accompaniment of influenza and other winter diseases. Dr. Frank J. Monaghan, who has just succeeded Senator Copeland as New York's health commissioner, believes that the germ or other cause of the disease can be found, and has put his laboratory...
...having but a vague a recollection of what Socrates said about the value of a gad-fly in stirring up the Athenians, I have turned to the Century Dictionary for a description of the-beast. I find that it is "very active, voracious, blood-thirsty, with great powers of biting. The bite is deep and painful, often drawing blood, though not poisonous...
...Afranio Amaral of the Instituto Soroterapico, "Butantan", of Sao Paulo, Brazil, will speak on "The Treatment of Snake-bite" this afternoon at 4.45 before the Biological Club in Room 46 of the Zoological Laboratory. The lecture will be open to members of the University and Radcliffe...
...attention is called to the lecture by Doctor Afranio Amaral of the Institute Soroterapico on the "Treatment of Snake-bite". Poughkeepsie and Northampton papers please copy...
...Norman Cabot writes with a pleasant hardness and bite of intellectual irony; and Mr. Grant Code is adept in showing his reader a kaleidescope of vivid and colorful details. Mr. Wheelright displays a cleverness which would perhaps be more at home in prose than in verse; and Mr. Merton writes with the neatness, if not with the power, of a Landor. And, finally, in Mr. Snow and Mr. R. Cameron Rogers one finds serious effort toward a self-realization which is not yet quite accomplished, but which holds good promise. Altogether, the book is more than a Harvard anthology...