New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1928, Page 6

CONQUEST OF BAD “ALWENT HUNTED population of 10,000,000. Dr. Loevenhart says 100,000 hu- man victims is the disease’s toll each vear, and he adds: “In this region sleeping sickness kills a8 many persons as all other diseases combined. Cattle, horses and other domestic animals cannot be kept in 2 2 s lthi because of the disease.” m Gfllgo mg VISIM | “Sctording to the Gusgenheim | - 4 morial Foundation, under whom Home of Finding Antidote trathman-Thomas is workin. he scientist will spend a year in — i:he Congo, then penetrate Rhodesis Mad! i and conduct further research there. e e atuiea witn | The Wiscansin scientist was born six" arsenical compounts,’ gnd | 3 Dodgeville. in this state.. He clothed in medical ~knowledge, is a3 Studied cBleeping sickness (e foreing his way with & Tellow stu. |} oAt Whem he "hgfl;‘:::.d A dent of medicine into the plague-in- | M‘_"‘m“ B ) e\ sode fesfeq ‘wilds of Belglam (ango. He | g il‘;rc\ra’km 4 to the Philip- i to fight the dragon of sleeping | .. "y japagito work with “surrafi” i lsays D Loevenhart. Both are The : . s, Strathman-Thomas, 28-year-old re. [f15G25€8 ¢hat affect animals. search pharmacologist at the Uni- | e = versity of Wisconsin, and his com- Patriotic Rumanians anion is Dr. Clement C. Chester- | ) ” B o(\ihe snactariee 't thei Demand “Right mhngf London Royal Society of Tropical| Bucharest, Nov. 8. —(P—The die- Medicine. {tum *‘forewarned is forearmed” in With the compounds, the men | the matter of national defense is the hope to find a cure for sleeping |Dasis of a movement just launched sickness. Dr. A. B. Loevenhart, '? Rumar}ia‘; 1Ior m.leo;fl:mzauan of Viscon. |2 national defense league. protedeer of pharmacy st Wiscon- |2 Lo el o of Deputy pounds were; prepared, character- | Stephen Tatarescu, wWhose slogan is izes the work of the men as “equiv. | “We all have the right to an honor- alent to discovery of a continent.” |able death,” branches will be estab. After studying the disease at lished in the principal cities gnd Coma, up the Congo river, in Afri (towns. The league will devote its ca, the will go to Stanleyville, | energies to a study of aero.chemical 1,500 miles from the coast, and a | Warfare, colonization of the frentier last post of a civilization made and military instruction for the apathetic by the disease. populace. The district where the two men| Its sponsors say the organisation will work will be turned into ai8 defensive. great clinic for study of the effects S TR IR of ‘the drugs on natives and ani- Planes operated by the National mals. Belgian Congo contains near- | Air Transport fly at least 6,000 miles ly 1,000,000 square miles and has aevery day in the year. crusader is Dr. Warren K. i i o $30.50 & No references needed—No recommendations necessary —If you work for a living, WE TRUST YOU! 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