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...death of Dr. Samuel W. Stratton, following so closely upon that of Edison, is symbolic of a relationship in the public service of two great scientists. Edison, pioneering in applied science, worked in the early days when one man could begin with the germ of an idea like the incandescent light, and single-handed, carry it through to a practical industrial completion Today, the vast knowledge of the laboratory must be codified by an intermediate agency and passed on to industry as needed. As long ago as 1901, far-sighted Dr. Stratton saw this coming need and met it splendidly...
...sexes is Strife." Adolph (Rob ert Loraine), a Swedish scientist, is con fronted with the problem of what to do about a servant girl who has been seduced by a soldier. Says the soldier (Barrie Livesay) : ''How can any man know if he is the father?" This is the germ of the scientist's obsession. His wife (Dorothy Dix) cunningly suggests that he may not be the father of her child, and persistent pondering of this problem drives him mad. He believes all the women of his household are allied against him, even his daughter (Maisie Darrell...
Fever is one of the body's ways of killing germs. For every germ there is a maximum temperature above which it cannot live. Experimentally, doctors are trying to raise body temperature above the germ-death heat by injecting fever-causing germs or nonspecific proteins, or by electricity. Dr. Sutton, having noted her patient's recovery from St. Vitus's Dance after a poison-produced fever, took a chance on another St. Vitus child by injecting typhoid serum. This second case grew feverish, sweated, recovered. She tried typhoid-paratyphoid serum on another. He too sweated and recovered...
...shake-up shook out Collins, who was general superintendent, and Vidal of the technical committee. Angry, because they felt that T. A. T. had publicized their discharge as a sort of burnt offering to disgruntled stockholders, Vidal & Collins saw a chance to square accounts. Together they had developed the germ of the plane-per-hour service. If they could start such a line in the East, they might compete with Eastern Air Transport which, like T. A. T., was one of the Curtiss-Keys group. They approached the Ludingtons, whose sporting instinct was aroused. The Ludingtons found the money, told...
Antiseptics. The whole philosophy of antiseptics was contained in a few words read by Herbert Clifton Hamilton, pharmacologist of Parke, Davis & Co.: "No one antiseptic will kill all kinds of germs. For example, the tetanus germ, which causes lockjaw, can be put into pure carbolic acid and remain in perfect health. Aniline dyes, which are widely used for cuts and skin injuries, kill only certain germs and leave others, equally dangerous, unscathed...