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...landscape-have now & then fallen sick, but in 1940 a bacterial disease attacked them with unusual virulence. Some giants developed oozy cankers, bled to death in a fortnight. Some developed rot pockets. Some looked healthy, then toppled suddenly to reveal decayed roots. The disease still rages and Plant Pathologist James Greenlief Brown of the University of Arizona and co-workers told how to save the giant cactus from extinction. Small sores are now cut out of the cacti to halt further infection, badly infected cacti are uprooted by cranes, chopped to bits, treated with germicides and buried...
...sections. Then on his elderly friend's advice, Hoadley went to the University of Michigan, where he became a laboratory assistant in his Sophomore year. When America entered the war, the young student spent his next two years partly in the ambulance corps and partly as assistant to the Pathologist in an Evacuation Hospital laboratory. After the Armistice he returned to Michigan, graduated in 1921, then did more intense laboratory work at the University of Chicago in the winter and at Woods Hole in the summer, for his Ph.D...
...Mallory had made an international reputation for his work in isolating infectious diseases. When an assistant visiting pathologist at the Boston City Hospital in 1903 he successfully determined the organism that caused scarlet fever...
...death rate is lowest for children at the age of ten and rises thereafter with age. If it did not increase, the national death rate would be only one-tenth as great as it is now. Said Pathologist Henry Swain Simms of Columbia: If the death rate remained at its lowest (one in 800 at the age of ten) man's life expectancy could be 550 years. Aging, the biochemists think, is essentially a chemical process and can probably be influenced if scientists learn enough about it. One way to learn more, Professor Simms suggested, is to apply known...
...inquest the Government's pathologist, one Dr. Vint, said he believed the Earl had been murdered. Dr. Vint further guessed that two shots had been fired through the window as the Earl sat at the wheel, that the murderer had then driven the car to the remote road and arranged the body to suggest suicide...