Science Studies the Nudists
STRANGE TESTS MADE IN THE LABORATORY REVEAL HOW THE NAKED HUMAN BODY REACTS TO SMALL CHANGES IN TEMPERATURE
By EDWIN TEALE
THREE hundred thousand men, women, and children, in America alone, are nudists. Followers of the “back-to-Eden” cult report that, during one ten-month period, members increased at the rate of 10,000 a month. Nearly 400 camps, scattered from coast to coast, are being maintained by the faddists for nude sun bathing.
Does nakedness really benefit health? Are the claims of the nudists justified? Can our bodies, if given a chance, inure themselves to cold and inclement weather?
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How Modern Surgeons Conquer Fatal Germs
By Frederic Damrau, M.D.
A SMALL item recently appeared in the newspapers. It reported a new ruling of the American College of Surgeons. In the future, all surgical thread must be tested thirteen days instead of six to insure its freedom from germs. That tiny item was buried in the back pages of the papers. Few people read it. Yet, behind it lies one of the most thrilling chapters in the whole dramatic story of death-fighting by surgery.
Less than seventy years ago, such a simple operation as the amputation of a finger was a life and death matter. In one famous European hospital, eleven out of seventeen amputations resulted in death from blood poison. Germs of infection were unsuspected. Sterilization, as we know it today, was unknown. Antiseptics were undreamed of. Doctors knew little about infection and were helpless before it. It was not until after the Civil War, that antiseptics first appeared and revolutionized the science of surgery.
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Lindy’s Invention Perfects the Mechanical Man
Lindbergh’s new “mechanical heart” calls attention to the fact that medical science even now has marvelous machines which will replace parts of the human body or do the work of parts that fail.
by RAYMOND L. BOWER
MEDICAL science has machines that will breathe for you, talk for you, hear for you, eat for you, circulate your blood—and even sweat for you—if you should ever happen to need them. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, a mechanical genius as well as a great aviator, has recently constructed a “mechanical heart” by means of which vital organs can be kept alive outside the body for months and probably years. So far, of course, only animals have been used in the experiments with the mechanical heart conducted at the Rockefeller Institute by the famous medical research man and Nobel prize winner, Alexis Carrel.
To Lindbergh goes the credit for another piece of scientific apparatus, a blood testing device which operates on the same principle that keeps a ball suspended in midair by the force below a spray of water.
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Work Capacity of Athlete Measured in Bike Test
How much work can an athlete turn out, and what does it cost him in oxygen consumption and heart effort? A group of Stanford University athletes has set out to measure their work-output capacity and “fuel” consumption while pedaling a test bicycle. The driving sprocket of the “bike” is connected to a dynamometer which translates leg effort into horsepower. Over the subject’s head is placed a copper helmet into which measured air is pumped, then exhausted air from the lungs is piped away to be measured for oxygen depletion and production of carbon dioxide.
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Sterility is Now Being Overcome
There is new solace for empty arms as science helps the limping stork
By Lorine Pruette, Ph.D
DYNASTIES have been changed and the course of history affected by the failure of particular unions to be fruitful. Catherine the Great took a lover because of the necessity to provide the throne with an heir and introduced entirely new strains into the royal family of Russia. Henry the Eighth of England made his numerous excursions into matrimony, in part at least, out of the desire for a male heir. As a by-product of his excursions we have the break with the Catholic Church, the establishment of the Church of England and vast changes in England’s internal affairs and in her relations with the continental countries.
Henry’s children mounted the throne in succession, but all three died without heirs. Had his daughter Mary borne a child to her husband, Philip of Spain, much history might have had to be rewritten and certainly England would have been returned for a time to the bosom of the Mother Church.
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Doctors Face Death TRAILING Living Poisons of MYSTERY DISEASES
By Sterling Gleason
ACTING as human guinea pigs in the war on a mysterious disease, three courageous scientists are now working in an isolated laboratory of the United States Public Health Service. Deliberately they have exposed themselves to the bites of mosquitoes suspected of carrying epidemic sleeping sickness (encephalitis) which, at this writing, has gripped nearly a thousand persons in St. Louis. If, as they believe, these insects carry the deadly virus, they will contract a malady for which medical science has no sure remedy.
Whether the three brave experimenters recover and learn the secret of the dread disease, or succumb to a heroic death, the fight they are waging will go on. It is but one phase of a war today being fought on many fronts.
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WIN SUCCESS WITH A HANDSOME TAN
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85% of success today is due to personality and ability to influence others.
. . . according to an exhaustive study recently made at Carnegie Institute of Technology.
That pale, pasty, inefficient, indoor look is a business and social handicap. Why put yourself at such an unforgivable disadvantage when you can get that handsome, healthy TAN everybody admires so much right in your home? Within ten days, you can actually improve your appearance 100%—look like a million dollars - as if you had just returned from a vacation in Palm Beach!
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Vital Organs Cut from Body to Work Life Saving Miracles
Recent Operations of a Sensational Nature Are Described for You in This Article, Fifth in Our Series Dealing with Modern Surgery
By Frederic Damrau, M. D.
LIFE-SAVING by surgery, the most dramatic phase of modern medicine, now includes the removal of whole organs from the human body. This is one of the most recent daring advances in the technique of the operating room.
Miracles of this kind, performed again and again, have proved you can live without a stomach, with one of your lungs entirely removed, with a kidney gone, and even with part of your brain taken away by the surgeon’s knife!
At the famous Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., two years ago, a man nearly seventy years old, had his entire stomach removed. Afterwards, he could eat anything he could before and he could digest it better.
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