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Ships for defense and ships for Britain-to get them both, the U.S. last week stripped its merchant marine to the bone...
...cream in his coffee, is liable to come down with a low fever and vague pains. He may feel fine every morning, but in the afternoon his temperature soars, and he gradually loses strength. This may keep up for years. Symptoms range all the way from mild backaches to bone and nerve infections, heart disease, insanity. Hardly an organ in the body is safe from invasion. Victims of brucellosis may be suspected of having tuberculosis, meningitis, arthritis, influenza, glandular disorders. Dr. Harris' five-year-old daughter, who suffered for many months from serious kidney trouble was primarily sick with...
...York State Medical Society meeting in Buffalo last week, Dr. Ward J. MacNeal of Columbia University told how he had used bacteriophage in treating osteomyelitis (an infection of bone often caused by the staphylococcus), had saved not only limbs, but lives. Dr. MacNeal said that in the last ten years he had given bacteriophage to 500 patients with severe infections, had cured 34%-a high proportion...
Bacteriophage is particularly useful for deep-seated bone infections which are difficult to open and drain. One of Dr. MacNeal's most successful patients was a surgeon who had an abscess in his shinbone. Instead of an operation, he asked for bacteriophage, received daily injections. In 48 hours his excruciating pain was relieved, in three weeks he was walking, in six he was playing tennis. Said Dr. MacNeal...
...tongue of the student body has been waggling so frantically in recent months that many of us have forgotten about the bone and muscle--that vast majority of undergraduates ranging from conservative to liberal who belong to no pressure group, largely favored Willkie in the last election, and are so overawed by the militant minority of liberal-to-leftists that they have made no attempt to have themselves heard. Britain has its Tory party; the United States has its Republicans; but who has ever heard a peep from the conservative at Harvard? With reference to equal representation for every political...