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...whole situation was a hot professional chestnut for Dr. Connell to handle. An eye-ear-nose-&-throat specialist, he found that he could often dissolve cataracts by injecting them with a filtrate of a liquid produced by certain germs bred on cataracts extracted from blind persons. That nitrate contained enzymes similar to. although not related to, pepsin, which in the stomach dissolves every meal...
...theory that germs which produce such disintegrating enzymes produced different kinds of enzymes according to the flesh on which they lived, Dr. Connell bred a strain called Bacillus histolyticus on cancers which he excised from the bodies of patients of Kingston's General Hospital, on whose staff he serves. He was cheered on by his father, Dr. James Cameron Connell, 72, who had also served on the hospital staff and was longtime dean of Queen's University Faculty of Medicine, Kingston. After due orthodox experiments on cancerous mice, young Dr. Connell began to inject the sterile nitrate...
...Early this year City Editor Amster Spiro of the Journal saw in Editor & Publisher how Japanese newspapers use carrier pigeons. Promptly he bought eight pairs of pigeons from the U. S. Army, bred & trained them under an oldtime Army expert...
...many a layman, remembering the smart, friendly Scotch collies of his youth, has deplored the breeding trend which gave Lucason his looks. Aiming at a long, narrow, chiseled muzzle and skull collie fanciers have crossed their dog with the Russian wolfhound. According to oldtime collie-lovers, they have bred out the dog's brains, made it a snappish, treacherous fashion-plate fit for nothing but mincing around a show ring. One morning last week Trainer Michael Kennedy took Champion Lucason out to groom him for a show at Englewood next day. Mrs. Ilch houses her 60-odd collies Beside...
...Lamington last week, a tiger-colored, 12-lb., 6-year-old. German-bred, smooth bitch named Amsel v. Holzgarten, trained by her owner, George McKay Schieffelin, made three finds in the final heat, took the trophy. Ch. Heini Flottenberg, who won best of breed at the Westminster Show in 1933, proved himself almost as able in the field as on the bench by taking third in the open all-age stake for dogs. For a field trial championship, a dachshund needs 25 points of which Amsel v. Holzgarten's victory in the Lamington Jagdgebrauch last week brought her seven...