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Undulant fever may smolder for years, suddenly flare up into a complex disease resembling typhoid, malaria or tuberculosis. It is caused by any of three germs of the group Brucella (named after Sir David Bruce, who discovered the strain in 1886). Brucellae infect cattle, sheep, goats and pigs, cause a disease known as contagious abortion. Between 11 and 20% of all U.S. cattle are infected, causing a yearly loss to farmers of some $80,000,000. The disease is transmitted to man through milk, butter, cheese, and through handling of infected carcasses; it is not passed from one person...
...keep an eye out for cattle epidemics, watch the milk supply. Whenever they are puzzled over a diagnosis, he believes they should try to culture Brucellae from a sample of the patient's blood, or use a skin test which shows whether the germ is present. Treatment is complex, depends on the symptoms. Best specific remedies: 1) injections of a specially prepared vaccine made from dead Brucellae; 2) sulfanilamide. Treatment must be continued, for a long period of time, for often a patient who seems to recover comes down with the same fever four or five years later...
...only merit of this extraordinary picture. One of Hollywood's weaknesses in the past has been its inability to develop character with the insight of a good stage-play. But Welles builds his picture around a character study of his central figure, showing every side of the complex Kane. The picture evolves from the attempts of the producer of the March of Time (News on the March in the film) to find the significance of the millionaire Kane's dying word, "Rosebud." As the reporter questions the people who knew him best, trying to link together the scattered fragments...
...smelled of totalitarianism. Laborites called it a disguised wage cut. Sir John Simon, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the patriotic motive was enough to make people save. But time proved him wrong. The Exchequer has partially adopted compulsory savings. Next autumn automatic wage deferments (on a complex sliding scale) will begin in Britain...
...knuckled their ideals under. 2) The most successful were religious, not scientific, communisms. 3) The destiny of most was determined by the hypnotic influence of an inspired-or maniacal-leader, and changed with his death. 4) Not one dared to meet sexual problems pointblank; even bold Oneida's "complex marriage" outlawed pleasure. 5) With few, ephemeral exceptions, Utopians feared individualists as they feared...