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...workers of the San Joaquin Valley. Although coccidioidomycosis was first recognized in 1893, it was not until last June that a complete picture of the course of the disease was presented to physicians. Last week, at the San Francisco meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists, Dr. Ernest Charles Dickson of Stanford Medical School, pioneer worker in valley fever, gave the first public, comprehensive account of the disease he had studied for 20 years...
Only procedure is to treat coccidioidal granuloma like tuberculosis. By 1936, said short, bright-eyed Dr. Dickson, 450 cases of the secondary disease had been reported in San Joaquin Valley, most of them in Tulare, Kern, Kings and Fresno counties. The disease is not contagious and attacks animals as well as men. Why San Joaquin Valley is the centre of coccidioidomycosis, Dr. Dickson could not say. Perhaps the hot dry summers, he suggested, favor the growth and reproduction of the fungus. Certain it is that the disease is not spreading beyond the valley...
Died. Baroness Eva Dickson von Blixen-Finecke, 30, British sportswoman and air enthusiast; in an automobile accident; near Baghdad, Iraq. The young Baroness, second wife of Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, hunted lions in Africa, drove racing cars in Europe, in 1935 went to Ethiopia to ''watch...
...WAKE THE DEAD-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). An English couple, just returned from South Africa with a group of friends, are brutally murdered, a few days apart and in different parts of England. Scotland Yard suspects all members of their party, all of whom suspect each other. Genial, astute Dr. Fell solves one of his most opaque jobs...
...JUDAS WINDOW-Carter Dickson -Morrow ($2). The murder of an elderly gentleman, found stabbed with an arrow in an apparently sealed room, with Sir Henry Merrivale defending a suspect caught with the corpse and a good deal of bright dialogue compensating for weaknesses in the plot. Good...