Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-25 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

Freaks Breaks and Oddi Oddities ties In Science N News News- While failed to save the life hiIe of ofU U 0 Private Olof Nelson recently in an army hospital it t has been a saving life operation In thousands of cases ases Children particularly have benefited by It because because be- be cause ause they are prone to put foreign objects in their mouths and swallow them by mistake Private Nelsons Nelson's Nelsons Nelson's Nel Nel- sons son's teeth lodged in this tube at about the level ot of f the heart and in a most inaccessible place Ordinarily Ordinarily In such cases an Instrument called an which is a long tube with a light at the end IS 13 s passed down the tle esophagus or food passageway This his enables the surgeon to see the foreign body and with ith a specially designed forceps he then extracts it Sometimes foreign bodies are aspirated or drawn with the he breath into the al air passages or into the lungs In n such cases a similar operation with an Instrument called tho the bronchoscope is performed False FaIse teeth collar ollar buttons bones jewelry coins toy soldiers and trains rains are arc amon among the thousands of objects which have lave been remo removed from the food and air passages by y means of these two operations w w S 4 Spending a day with th a razorback hog may not H be an attractive enterprise but such a procedure recently yielded some somo valuable il information Believing that hat the razorback was a serious destroyer of longlea longleaf long- long lea leaf eaf pines and wanting to get irrefutable evidence on onic the ic subject a forest commissioner followed a hog for or 8 4 1 hours from froni 8 o'clock in the morning mornin until 15 that afternoon In that time he counted trees rees which the hog rooted out At the same rate the 10 commissioner calculated in days the razorback razor- razor back jack would destroy trees valued at based on onic the ic cost of their growing and planting planting-a. a sum more morelan than lan 40 times the tho value of the too hog l itself el S 4 S Sl l Even the strictest teetotaler has alcohol in him ca researches have disclosed Minute but definite traces races of alcohol in human brains and blood in tissues tissues sues ues of pigs dogs and other animals have been found Singularly enough the unclean swine has hasIB the IB least natural alcohol in him S S S Calcium a new chemical of consIderable considerable consIder consIder- able industrial importance and of possible value in medicine can now be made by an electrical process process proc proc- ess using glucose crushed limestone and a small amount mount of a bromide