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...mustard plasters, have been well-known old-fashioned remedies in pneumonia treatment, but this particular application is still in the experimental stage, although several New York specialists are using similar methods. The current is applied through two electric plates, one fitted to the back and one to the chest. The current flows directly through the lungs without burning the skin or causing dangerous fever elsewhere in the body, and is believed to raise the temperature within the lungs themselves to about 115 degrees. The effect is to reduce the congestion, just as gelatin is melted. After a few treatments...
...bandy-legged and lame of one foot; his shoulders were crooked and contracted towards his chest; his head was peaked towards the top and then wool was scattered over it. . . . And on this occasion, shouting out shrillly, he uttered bitter taunts."-That is the description of Theristes, "reckless babbler" of Homer's Iliad...
While some individuals are doubtless sincerely opposing the law, the organized opposition is clearly due to the industry itself. It is said to have brought into Massachusetts the biggest war chest ever brought into any Commonwealth for any purpose. Why? Its motive is obviously the largest possible profit. On the other hand, the 420 organizations, state and local, supporting the law before the legislature and before the people, include all the altruistic organizations and the churches. The men and women who are speaking and writing for it are without pay and sacrificing time and money. Whether mistaken or not, their...
During the war considerable attention was focussed on the Community War Chest idea, which made possible the lumping together of contributions, great and small, towards war activities to be applied where most needed. This idea, or at least a similar one, has been introduced by the University of Vermont in establishing a "Loyalty Fund" for graduate gifts in annual contributions or single donations...
...Harvard, the Endowment Fund is at present serving the purpose of the University of Vermont's Loyalty Fund. But when the endowment quota a completed the only permanent contribution box for alumni will be the customary twenty-fifth year gift of each college class. The establishment of a "University Chest" similar in plan to Vermont's Loyalty Fund would serve as a permanent storehouse for all graduate offerings, rich and poor alike, and would lighten the task of "continually passing...