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...announced last week, meant cuts of 8% to 20% in all salaries over $1,500. It also meant the dismissal of 66 teachers, including four full professors, and 39 nonacademic em ployes. On part-time went 122 others. Administrative and maintenance expenditures will be cut to the bone...
...kill the elk and rangers cull out the bison. There will be Indians as well as geysers, about which government guides lecture at intervals all day long, at Old Faithful Inn. It is best not to do much public drinking in the Government hostels. The Federal preserves were bone Dry long before national Prohibition...
...maggots eat dead tissue and germs, but do not touch live flesh. This maggot habit the late Surgeon William Stevenson Baer applied to the treatment of festering wounds and bone diseases. He got astonishingly good results. Surgeons every- where are beginning to use the Baer technique...
Johns Hopkins' Professor Dean DeWitt Lewis, who is the new A. M. A. president, said that he hunts for a tumor of the parathyroid when he gets a case of bone cyst. The cysts "develop and the bones get softer and shorter because the diseased parathyroid cannot produce enough hormones to hold calcium in the bones. Surgeon Lewis cuts out the parathyroid tumors, cures his patients...
...Other organs which probably secrete hormones: pineal (in the brain), thymus (back of the collar bone), liver, heart, spleen...