Word: micro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instruments and dressings are of course sterilized. But Drs. Mitchiner and Cowell do not believe in the use of antiseptics for wound surgery. Powerful antiseptics, they hold, "cause more damage to the tissue cells than to the micro-organisms and thus encourage the spread of infection." Iodine they mention only to "condemn...
...pair of small aneroid bellows; the temperature, by a bimetallic strip which coils with change in temperature; and the humidity, by a single human hair. Each of the three instruments is fitted with a needle which touches a wire, sending out a radio signal by means of a micro-transmitting set. The significance of the signals depends on the time between them. The measurement of this time interval by the operators on the ground provides all the needed information...
...photographic end of the training device has been completed by the Harvard Film Society, the same organization that has been experimenting with micro-film in Widener Library...
...extensive collection of French newspapers, relating to the Dreyfus Case was presented by Lee M. Friedman, of Boston, and has been photographed on micro-film to insure its preservation. Another gift was an army commission, dated 1862, signed by Abraham Lincoln...
...will publish Vitamin B1 and its Use in Medicine ($5), which he wrote with Dr. Tom Douglas Spies of Cincinnati, a medical vitamin specialist. Dr. Williams, still zealous at 52, says: "The study of vitamins] may some day be regarded as rivaling in importance the discovery of micro-organisms as causative factors in disease. . . . It would be misleading to suppose that thiamin is the only vitamin which possesses a universal or nearly universal function in living cells. . . . [But] the lack of no other accessory substance leads to so early, so profound and so universal disaster...