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Sioli of Diisseldorf and Muehlens of Hamburg offered their new drug plasmochin as a more effective specific against malaria than is the old stand-by quinine.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: German Renaissance | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Intra-Atomic Energy. If matter could be sent out of existence and made to reappear as energy, unlimited power would be on tap. Instead of one royal phenomenon like radium, there would be a grand democracy of matter in which the homeliest substances would lie ready to perform potent miracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

"We do not know what life is, but we do know that life is certainly a physical property, a behavior of a colloidal miscella [grain] of a particular constitution. In order to study this constitution, this behavior, we must necessarily turn to the smallest particle of autonomous living matter, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Low Life | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

Who can blame Subscriber Coward and his friend for having a disagreement while playing the new game, "Babbitt" ? The definition of a Babbitt published in TIME, July 26, [MISCELLANY, p. 29] was most vague. Why not be specific, if you set yourselves up as authorities ? ... Is it part of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

Last week the American Institute of Homeopathy met in 82nd annual convention at Philadelphia; the American Osteopathic Association in 30th annual convention at Louisville, Ky. Famed John D. ("Bonesetter") Reese of Youngstown, Ohio, was made a "Druid" by the American Gorsedd. All are groping toward methods of keeping humans well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gropings | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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