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...Main virus diseases in man are the common cold, smallpox, yellow fever, measles, mumps, chicken pox, influenza, encephalitis (sleeping sickness), infantile paralysis. The animals' viruses bring foot-and-mouth disease, distemper, swine fever, parrot fever, pox diseases of birds. Fish and insects are also attacked by viruses, and no fewer than 135 plant-virus diseases have been described. Most prevalent: tobacco mosaic disease, potato leaf roll, sugar beet curly top. Viruses flourish only in living tissues, cannot be cultured in test tubes...
...soldiers ever have to fight in Central or South America, large quantities of yellow-fever vaccine will be needed. The U. S. hoard of that must start almost from scratch. Surgeon General Thomas Parran recently observed that there was hardly enough yellow-fever vaccine actually on hand to immunize a single regiment...
...lion, a buffalo, a young elephant, a hyena, a dwarf hippopotamus, two little sacred pythons whose delight was to weave themselves upon his ankles. The buffalo broke loose in the hold, one of the chimpanzees piteously died. Ashore Demaison ran into snake-sorcerers, a terrific flogging scene, a yellow fever epidemic. Demaison gives such incidents their due; but he makes his less eventful passages even better...
...more difficult branches of physical therapy, such as artificial fever, radium and X-ray treatment, are practiced by physicians assisted by technicians. The 1,500 members of the American Physiotherapy Association, mostly women, are qualified to give special exercises, massages, baths. Their most important work is re-education of muscles after operation and paralyzing diseases. To get a diploma or certificate from most of the 16 recognized physiotherapy schools in the U. S.*, a student must be a registered nurse or physical-education teacher, must spend one to four years in anatomy, physiology, scientific massage and exercise courses...
Electric heat. Most spectacular development in electric heat is the artificial-fever machine, introduced in 1931 by Willis Rodney Whitney, vice president of General Electric. Electrically heated cabinets, resembling huge coffins, can raise human temperatures up to 107.5 degrees. Several ten-hour sessions in a hot box will cure gonorrhea, relieve types of arthritis and asthma. Since the treatment is something like a short trek across the Sahara without water, few patients willingly endure...