Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-31
MEDICINE

Partial immuniZation to measles
from persons who have had the dis.
ease and recovered, was claimed in a
report to the League of Nations health
committee.
The germ of oroya fever or Peru.
Wan fever, was isolated at the Rookie
Teller Institute by Drs. HideyC
Noguchi and T. S. Battistini.
DR.. T.. B. krumbhaar of PhiIadel
phia announced the discovery that
the spleen is an important source OF
the anti-bodies in the blood, which aid
in resisting bacterial infection.
n skin test for susceptibility tc
infantile paralysis was originated by
DIR. Edward G.. Rosenow of the Nave
Foundation
Bacteriophage. the enemy of germs
discovered by DR.. T. d'Herelle, was
declared by him to be living para
site of parasites and not just chemi
cal factor.
Cause of creeping eruption was
found to be q small parasitic thread
worm by experts at u. S. Bureau of
Entomology.
Mrs. Margaret r. Lewis of the
Carnegie Institute and Howard B.
Andervont, Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity graduate student, discovered that
form of cancer occurring in chick
ems is the result of the white blood
cells running wild.
Experiments on $4,000 mice by DR..
Maud Slye Of the University of
Chicago showed that resistance as
well as susceptibility to cancer in
mice is hereditary.
Virus from chicken sarComa was
found to be absolutely resistant to
X-rays by a worker at Cancer Re.
search Laboratory at Middlesex,
England.
Rat bite fever was found to be an
effective cure for general paralysis
or paresis.
The Pasteur Institute claimed that
babies may be protected from tetanus
Infection by giving prenatal doses
of tetanus anatoxin to mothers.
Indications were found that ira
choma, a disease Of the eye for which
immigrants have been barred from
entering the United States. IS due to
a deficient diet, by DIR. B. Franklin
Roger, medical director Of the national
committee for the prevention of blind
ness.
a way of using washed animal blood
in human transfusions.
By coating them with gold, Prof.
IL. Bechold, German scientist, made
visible minute bacteria formerly be.
yond the power of microscope.
Polonium, the radioactive element
isolated by Nine. Curie, was declared
to be of possible use in treating
syphilis as a result of preliminary
tests made at the Pasteur Institute.
The theory that some diseases may
be the result OF a partnership of two
kinds OF germs was advanced by DIR.
Aldo Castellani, internationally known
for his studies of tropical diseases.
Protection against typhoid fever by
swallowing vaccine was tried out
experimentally in archaeological lab
oratories at the State College of
Washington.
Discovery Of the chemical COM
pound in tuberculin that causes the
skin reaction in persons that have
tuberculosis was announced by DIR.
Florence 3. Seibert of the University
Of Chicago as a new step toward
understanding the chemistry of
tuberculosis.
The belief that the adrenal glands
play an important part in the pro-
duction of body heat was advanced by
DR.. Charles Sajous, professor OF
endocrinology at the University Of
Pennsylvania.
1t was shown that ultraviolet light
Is necessary for the formation of
vitamin B, which prevents beri-beri
and similar diseases, and of the
growth promoting vitamin A, at least
to a certain extent.
Nickel and cobalt were shown to
be necessary to the proper function
ing of the pancreas, which prevents
diabetes, by Gabriel Bertrand, of the
Pasteur Institute of Paris.
The Health Organization of the
League of Nations Medicine built up
an archaeological service to check
the spread of infectious diseases be-
tween countries.
A drive for full birth and death
registration throughout the United
States was inaugurated by the
American Medical Association.
Tetraethyl lead "anti-knock" gaso-
line was declared not unduly danger
Gus to health by the u. S. Public
Health Service.
A movement to secure uniform milk
ordinances for all the States was in
stigatcd by the U. S. Public Health
Service at conference Of health
authorities from the different States.