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China's angry dragon, the Yangtse River, was dropping a few inches a day last week. The flood peak had definitely passed. But there was no respite from death and destruction. Hankow, "Chicago of China," was still awash with germ-laden, stinking waters. Gendarmerie headquarters estimated 250,000 dead in the vicinity...
...newly devised food for the artificial nourishment of germs, referred to at Northwestern University last week, promises to enlarge the study of bacteriology. One great problem of the science has to do with viruses. What are they? Are they germs too small to see with the microscope or the ultramicroscope? Are they germ poisons? Are they transitional forms which germs adopt? Whatever they are, they are a vicious nuisance, involved in such diseases as infantile paralysis, smallpox, measles, rabies, rheumatism...
Professor Kendall was not ready last week to explain the constituents of his germ food. He will reveal them after a fortnight so that other bacteriologists can duplicate his work, find fault with it or confirm it. Essential ingredient, however, of the food is the small intestine of man, swine, dog or rabbit treated chemically. The resulting stuff he calls "K medium." Scientists who heard Professor Kendall explain his work last week were prompt with applause. Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter, Dean of Northwestern's medical school (post which Professor Kendall held 1916-24) burst out with "This discovery...
...Renaud report inspired Dr. John Edward Walker to summarize what is known about soap's germ-killing powers. Textbooks on surgery and bacteriology say very little on the subject. Dr. Walker, 39, onetime Army major, onetime bacteriology instructor at Johns Hopkins and the Army Medical School, onetime investigator of infectious diseases for E. R. Squibb & Sons, now practicing at Opelika, Ala. last week summarized...
...murder-story "Tommy Twitchell," has him shot in a theatre telephone booth during a first-night performance, proceeds with his unraveling tale in a style that owes much to his hero's prototype. As a murder story The Columnist Murder is not above the average; but in germ and treatment it is Times Squareish, up-to-date, Winchellesque...