463 with special emphasis on those of medical and industrial importance. Since the work is intended for elementary students, they have wisely included extensive sections on techniques of cultivation and classification, the various tools of microbiology, chemotherapy, and bacteriostasis. A reasonable balance is maintained between the structural and functional aspects of classification. The print...

The lethal effect of ultraviolet light, k 254 m/z, on Esckerichia toll, Streptomyces griseus, and other microorganisms can be largely prevented if following ultraviolet irradiation the cells are exposed to visible and near-ultraviolet light in the vicinity of 400 m~ (Kelner, 1949 a, 1949 b, 1950). Such light-induced recovery (or pkotoreactivation, pkotore~ersal, or pkotorecwoery) has been confi...

The treatment of chronic hypertrophic emphysema by pneumoperitoneum has received much favourable comment in recent medical literature. In several reports on small series of cases it is claimed that this manceuvre will increase vital capacity (Brackenridge and Jones, 1953; Furman and Callaway, 1950; Gaensler and Carter, 1950; Zak and Southwell, 1953),maximum breathing capacity (Gaensler and Cart...

The yeur 196%’ YUW a sizable shift in outlays fo? health and medic& cwre from private sowrce.y of funds to public sowces. Th& tland & attributuble in large measure to the implementation of the program of health irwurunce fo?* the aged (Medicare) heginning July 1, 1965, to the new medbul assistance yrogtam (Medic&d), and to the eayarwion of other public progrcrma. This unnu& urtbcb presents the ...

The Clinica Para Madres (Mother?s Clinic) opened in Tucson, Arizona, in December of 1934 as the first birth control [3] clinic in Arizona. After moving to Tucson, birth control [3] activist Margaret Sanger, along with a group of local philanthropic women, founded the clinic to provide Arizona women with contraception [4]. During the early 1900s in the US, contraception [4] was illegal under the...

This article takes both a short-term and a long-term look at trends in social welfare expenditures under public programs. For fiscal year 1975, inflation and the recession were the key to developments. Inflation ate up more than half the 20 percent ($47 billion increase--the largest in the history of the series--partly as the result of antirecession measures. After adjustment for population and...

The Clinica Para Madres (Mother?s Clinic) opened in Tucson, Arizona, in December of 1934 as the first birth control [3] clinic in Arizona. After moving to Tucson, birth control [3] activist Margaret Sanger, along with a group of local philanthropic women, founded the clinic to provide Arizona women with contraception [4]. During the early 1900s in the US, contraception [4] was illegal under the...