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Diabetes. Charts of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and of the U. S. Department of the Interior showed that during 1923 and 1924 the death rates due to diabetes were 10% less than for 1922 when Drs. Banting and MacLeod discovered insulin and hailed it as a specific treatment, although...
Cosmetics. "The cosmetic business has been a perfectly reputable business, but in the absence of a law controlling it [the Pure Food & Drug Act is not specific enough] a number of scamps have crept into the business." Some hair dyes irritate the skin dangerously; others contain poisonous lead. Some freckle...
Gracefully if somewhat reluctantly Harvard concedes the first moral victory of the football year to the directors of New Haven athletic destinies. The H. A. A. has stated clearly that it does not care to remain longer either different or indifferent in regard to non-scouting agreements, and that next...
Millions of words have been written about the flood; most of them endlessly reiterating news of thousands homeless, of counties and parishes inundated, left readers with a deep but vague impression of the great disaster. Had a reporter explored the flood area with an eye to specific highlights, notes for...
The plate unearthed Friday derives more than an antiquarian interest from the fact that the border designs found on it are to bet transmitted to the new University plate, on the design for which Assistant Professor Conant was already it work at the time of the recent discovery. The projected...