Feverish rats and rabbits scamper about the Research Laboratory of General Electric Co.. Schenectady. N. Y. No common fever but one artificially induced, by short-length ether waves, makes them suffer.
Researcher E. L. Manning of General Electric told listeners at the Engineers Club. Philadelphia, last week: "We have learned to build vacuum tubes which broadcast such a short-length wave (1 in.) that people in the neighborhood will have their blood temperatures raised."
Value of this discovery lies in the probability that fever is a natural attempt of the body to kill off bacteria that are...