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...likeliest time for epidemics has just arrived. The worldwide 1918-19 influenza epidemic did not start until the end of the war. Typhus, cholera, relapsing fever, smallpox, dysentery and typhoid devastated eastern Europe "after the cessation of hostilities and following the disintegration of established government over wide areas...
Avoid the Noonday Sun. All this, thinks Dr. Cowles, may be a warning to man. He cites the fact that high fever sometimes causes temporary human sterility. A 1943 survey in Galveston, Tex. showed that the rate of conception of babies is higher in cool seasons than in warm. Other investigators have reported that the fertility of white men is greatly reduced in the tropics, and even natives conceive fewer children in the hot months. Dr. Cowles believes it entirely possible that a sustained cycle of hot climate on the earth might radically change or even wipe out the human...
Baffling Bridget. Educated at Vassar, Johns Hopkins, a London hospital, Manhattan's Bellevue and various baby hospitals, Dr. Dodge became an expert on rheumatic fever, taught pediatrics at New York University's Medical School, had a private Manhattan practice on the side. Resoundingly successful in her profession, she has met less success at the poker table and was baffled in the case of Bridget, a ten-year-old Briton whom she took in during the blitz. Bridget, though a nice child, proved many child-care textbook theories wrong, taught the child expert a good deal about children...
Last week New York Timesman Meyer Berger told the story: "The amputation cases lay silent . . . in the red glow of the battle light in the ward. Shipboard sounds seemed remote and subdued as the chaplain bent over the fever-flushed youngster. The chaplain said: 'Do you want to pray with...
Except for the shrill whine of their wings, most varieties make no sound audible to man. But the Cornell researchers caged four of the peskiest species-Anopheles quadrimaculatus (malaria), Aedes aegypti (yellow fever), Aedes albopictus (dengue) and Culex pipiens (New Jersey) -and confronted them with a microphone and high-powered amplifier. A surprising variety of noises, resembling bird calls, emerged. Mosquitoes, it turned out, have voices in the middle ranges of human hearing (frequencies of 250 to 1,500 cycles per second). Females bellow; male voices are thin and high-pitched...