Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-13 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

F FREAKS REA K Sand and 0 ODDITIES D D 1 TIE S SI I IN N S SCIENCE SCIENCE C I ENe ENE NEWS NEWS- W s- s H Important experiments which may bring scientists scientists U closer to exact knowledge of how people get et leprosy are arc now under way Though leprosy has as been a disease of World wide importance for centuries its exact cause has never been deter deter- mined Efforts are now being made to isolate the bacillus believed to cause the disease and grow itin itin it itin in an artificial culture medium in the laboratory Until this is done so that from the culture the disease disease dis dis- ease can be produced in animals or man scientists will not be certain that the organism is really the cause of leprosy I 0 Saving of many thousands of dollars by curtailing curtailing cur cur- tailing experimental and agricultural protective protective tive e work ork and limiting personnel is planned by the United States department of agriculture in 1932 Activities to be cut down are Bre explorations for foreign foreign for for- eign plants practical work in barberry eradication eradication eradication tion heretofore carried on because of the black stem rust disease which the barberry carries to wheat heat crops rubber Investigations certain forest products laboratory experiments and many others v H Scientists mindful that pa patent nt medicines are arc U likely to find their greatest opportunity for exploitation n in times of depression are urging that scientific research laboratories must be kept open with work under way to refute false claims