The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-09-03
STIMULATED BY WAR
INVENTORS DO BEST WORK DUR.
ING CLASH OF ARMS.
Value Of Anti-Typhoid incubation
First Apparent During 6ritish-eoer
confIict-wster Wireless I'M
portant Discovery.

War Is at best a dismal. vastefuI
business. Yet there is one think about
it. 1t stimulates the brains OF inyen.
-ors. and chemists and scientists In all
the countries involved are working at
high pressure.
Some are busy about purely mill.
fary inventions, some to evolve sub
stitutes for materials OF Industry. of
which the import has suddenly ceased,
others again are working for the bene-
6t Of the sick and wounded.
II was the Boer war which taught
US the value Of antityphoid incubation.
Nowadays. not only soldiers, but trav-
elers and explorers and ali those who
may have to risk drinking impure wa
ter go in for this inoculation, which In
the long run viii probably put an end
to the ravages of one OF mankinds
worst enemies.
The present war has already seen at
least three important new medical in,
ventions. the most valuable OF which
is undoubtedly the new serum called
Coagulen.
Coagulen is the invention OF the
great Swiss surgeon, Professor Kocher.
1t is in the form Of powder, which,
before use. is mixed with water. AID
Piled to a wound, II almost instantly
coagulates the blood and stops the
bleeding, whether external or internal.
1t shortens surgical operations and
rrr.
French medical headquarters speak
most highly OF coagulen. II will. nc |
doubt, come into general use in all sur |
gical operations.
Professor Frauher, an Austrian doc
tor, has discovered a preventive 1
against typhus. 1t is a mixture con
tanning anisol, which almost instantly
destroys the hitherto inyulnerable In.
sect which transmits the infection Of
spotted typhus.
The odd thing about the discovery
Ia that It came by chance The pro
fessor's assistant was told to use anise
oil In the mixture which was being pre-
Jared. Instead he put in anisol.
A third invention which win be al L
most as useful in peace as in war is
a method for taking almost instanta
neous X-ray photographs. Hitherto an
exposure OF many minutes has beer
necessary for X-ray photos.
The searchlight has hardly been i'm
proved since 1856. when the first per
feet parabolic mirror was produced
The chief disadvantage of the search
light has been that it could not be
used in ship that had not an electric
This has now been changed. A new
searchlight has been evolved in which
1 mixture OF acetylene and oxygen Is
burnt and the fame played on a small
pellet of ceria. which emits an amaz
ngly powerful light. The outfit is quite
light and portable and can be carried
md used by two men. 1t win be mos
Taluable both IN sea and land.
Water wireless is another product OF
his tremendous struggle, which will
probably in the future save thousands
4 human lives from collision at sea
At present 1t Is being used for the de
ection of submarines; in the future
assenger vessels will find 1t invalu
BILE In tfres OF fog.
The French have a new air bomt
'hich. when it bursts, produces cold sc
ltense that the aviator who first used
hem in November last has placed 1t or
ecord that he distinctly felt the chill
a height of 500 feet. 1t is suggested
nat modification of these bombs will.
rove extremely useful in fire fighting
nd win enable fremen to get to close
1arters with the intense fame pro \
lced BY the burning OF oil wells.