The Great Debt Science Owes to Dumb Animals
A discussion on how animal experimentation propelled biologic therapy and medical advances. It cites Jenner’s smallpox vaccination and Pasteur’s rabies work, noting vaccines and antitoxins as key outcomes. The piece argues that animal studies underlie prevention and treatment of diseases and reduced rabies deaths in humans.
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John A. Kolmer
Jenner
Pasteur
The
Psychology Foundation
Brussels
Grimbly
Henry M. Miller
Electric heated suit and mask for cold weather use
The article describes D. Graham of River Forest's electric heated clothing for aviators and others exposed to extreme cold. A full body suit with distributed heating pads through the lining, integrated with gloves boots and a hooded helmet, provides warmth. a facial electric mask for beauty and wrinkle treatment is also noted.
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Ea Cially
D. Graham
River Forest
Animals and soil freezes drive disease notes from Siberia
A Siberian soil and animal science talk cites permafrost depths over 100 yards in Jakutsk and Irkutsk Professor Scho lstakowitch describes vast tundra regions, subterranean rivers under the ice, and rare thaws beneath heated houses. The piece extols rabbits guinea pigs horses and mice in diagnostics therapies vaccines and antitoxins and lauds animal experimentation for modern medicine.
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Siberia
Scholstakowitch
Irkutsk
Berlin Geographical Society
Europe
Jakutsk
Concrete buttresses for earthquake resistant houses in Japan
Japanese cities Tokyo and Yokohama plan safer housing using concrete frames and heavy buttresses to move as a unit during quakes. The 1923 disaster left half of Tokyo homeless and 150000 killed, guiding reconstruction with fireproof bridges and wider streets. A separate note describes a forged mask method for electrical treatment, detailing a plaster mold lined with tinfoil for contact.
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Tokio
Yokohama
Japan
Toldo
Vienna
Edwin Last
Acre
Detroit inventor designs ice and water catamaran boat
The article describes Peter Stone of Detroit building a novel boat with a catamaran hull on pontoons and dual rudders. It uses an automobile engine and air propeller and features automatic ice water steering via a spring and tie-rod system.
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Peter Stone
Detroit
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R. Alan Grimbly
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