New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1928, Page 11

SCIENCE PATIENTLY STUDIES PELLAGRA Research fo Learn Cause Ex- tends Over Score Years BY COLEMAN B. JONES Washington, Dec. 14 UP—Mention of scientific investigation of a dis- case is likely to evoke in the mind of the average person a picture of a research worker in a laboratory amid test tubes, cultures of bacte- ria, microscopes and much ofher intricate and mysterious apparatus. Such a picture is more likely than not to be untrue, for instead of from large, elaborately equipped laboratories, many outstanding achievements in the solution of problems relating to the diseases of man come out of unimpressive and even cramped rooms furnished in the simplest possible manner. Further, the laboratory work, while essential, is only part of the wide variety of effort which goes into such an investigation. As conducted by the Public Health Service. an investigation of a disease calls for field, and clinical work as well as labo- ratory experiments and analyscs. By assembling all pessible data Eathered py these methods correla- | tion of the knowledge of many phases of the disease can be work- ed out. In the pellagra investigation. which has been under way approxt- mately 20 years, this coordikation correlation its effectivencss, as it has in many others. Aithough it is now recog- rized that pellagra is a disease caused by deficient or unbnmnced ¢ict, many years of patient study of all its aspects have been re- quired to arrive at satisfactory re- | suits. Laboratory experiments with ani- mals helped to give an understand- ing of the effects of different diets in causing or preventing the dis- ease. Statistical studies were nee- essary to learn the number of case prevalent in given population groups. Field studies: brought out their regional distributfon and the vital facts about the diet and living con- ditions of victims and their neigh- bors and many other factors relat- ing to the disease from a genera! standpoint with the thought held firmly fn mind that the primary purpose of the whole effort was to make possible the cure and preven- tion of individual cases. has demonstratea | soue other igvestigations has been carried to the extent of establish- ing hospitals for the treatment and observation of sufferers until suffi- cient knowledge has been gained to equip the general practitioner to combat the disease. In the trachoma investigation | which has been conducted similar lines a number of years, the | siderable progress in development of methods for treating the disease, although it has not been ascer- tained yet what |it spreads. SLEEPERS TO BE PLAGE FOR SLEEP ness in Night Travel Dec. 14 (P—The | now ix forecast when a sleeping senger will voll less in his | when his Pullman takes a_cur; h speed. Bumps and sideswipi also are due for further red day statistical | or a meclanical passeng ily has been devised—instri | with stecl and wood bodies, rod legs |and arms sprinz museles, and elec- |tric nervous systems—which nieas- {nre what man can feel, but has not | heen able heretofore to record quite o completely. They measure the ex- t oscillation stresses of a loaded passenger train at full speed This erew rides in a special coach on the Santa Fe rallway. Tts meni- bers were invented partly by Santa Ve engineers and partly by Elmer A | Sperry of the Sperry Gyr | pany of Rrooklyn. The devices record in sheet of paper a foot wide of their feelings. Fairly st | wavy lines indicate riding bala and comfort, while wide o loops mark irregularities. pose is two-fold, to detect tlie |larities for which track worker search by eye, and to furnish data | for fundamental stidies of rail bed | construetion. One instrument has the job of de- tecting low rail joints and me | the amount of drop when greater than an eighth ink on a b hnlnt pur irre suring 1 it is no of gauge of rails. A third shows the tera: movement e member with the mechan brain records how much higher the rails are on ome side than on thr other, and how much the car body | inclines to one side. It operates hy | holding a pendulum ulnn"‘ causes it nor how | roc king hors | weehanical Science Trying to End Wakeful- [toitot powder and |a saving ope com- | an inch, | | Arother records ineguulities in the | perpendicular | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDA The clinical work in that and|to the earth’s center, and rides in the car at about the height of an upper berth. Everything else in the car tips and sways, but this pendulum re- mains perpendicular, because it is geared ingeniously to take advantage of the laws of gravitation Two gyro- seppe rotors, spinning at 12,000 revo- lutions a minute, and a jet of mildly compressed air furnish the main ele- | s 4 ments of the uncanny powers of this clinica v ht con- | clinical studies havé brought con g 1t distinguishes between and rec- arately two hitherto diffi- It forces to divide, the other, and inclination of the car in a speeding train. On a curve it measures the proper conditions for balance between outside rail cleva- tion, side sway and speed. ich things as ties that rest on ridges invisible below the surface of the roadhed, and which act like se 1 by the spot comfort crew Coal crushed to the fineness of used furnaces is claimed to maks of $1.50 a ton on coal while inereasing the boiler efficie 15 to 20 per cent. % ships' GIFT OFHEALTH s HAPPINESS | TIM'S CAP 100% WORSTED the effects of | e 1ift when one rail is higher than | g for firing | .| runner and she hove to and submit- YACHT LIGHTENED OF $150,000 LIQUOR LOAD Ten of Crew Await Arraignmene on Charges of Violating the Prohibition Laws. 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