It does, however, offer the present generation the opportunity to make the coming generation the finest of gifts, inneased mastery of fate. Funds for research will be forthcoming in adequate amounts when the public learns to take pride in the achievements of research."
Geman Has New Gold Remedy for Tuberculosis. Preliminary announcements of a new gold treatment for tuberculosis have reached England from Berlin. Prof. Erich Leschke, of the medical faculty of the University of Berlin, has been working with a new gold compound called triphal, according to the German cornspondent of the medical journal, Lancet. Injections of one-quarter of a grain of the new compound are admmistered every four days to patients in various stages of the disease, and it has also been used before performing the operation known as pnenmothorax, when there is a cavity in one lung and lesions in the other. Pneumothorax is a process whereby one lung is collapsed to give the tubercular lesions a chance to heal. The results so far are encouraging, according to Prof. Leschke, but he is unwilling to give out more information or make further statements until the remedy has been more completely tested.-Science SeM'ce Synthetic Com~oundsDestroy . Le~rosy - - Germs. Synthetic acids similar to those made from chaulmoogra oil for the cure of leprosy have been found to bc just as effective against the disease as the naturally occurring substances which have heretofore been used. Dr. Roger Adams, of the University of Illinois, who first made the artificial substances, bas recently tested them out against the leprosy bacillus, he told the American Chemical Society meeting a t Philadelphia. Dr. Adams, has not only synthesized chaulmoogric and hydnocarpic acids, both of which are deadly to the leprosy germ, but alsa a series of thirteen chemically related substances which also have bactericidal qualities. The advantages of making the substances artificially is that they can be prepared in a purer form and may he, therefore, superior in application to the products derived from nature.-Science Se&e Copper Speeds Meat Roasting. Roasts run through with skewers made of copper are not only juicier, more tender, and more appetizing than those baked in the ordinary way but they alsa require 30 per cent less time for cooking. Such are the findings of experts of the home economics department of the University of California. This culinary discovery is explained on the grounds that the copper serves to carry heat into the interior of the roast evenly and rapidly while meat fiber alone has a very low heat couductivitv. The experimenters maintain in their report to the Jnvrnal o/ Home Eronnmics that the more copper they used the less the m a t lost weight dtlring baking, &us g - - ivin -~ an obvious economy of meat shrinkage as well as time and fuel-Science Service Drives Metal through Glass into Vacuum. The metal potassium can be deposited through the walls of a sealed glass bulb and forms a coating on the inside, according to V. Zworykin, of the Westinghouse Company's research Laboratories. Such a bulb may be used as a photoelectric cell, which gives a minute electric current when light falls on it, and is used to transmit photographs by telephone wires and radio. Although it has been h o w n for some time that another of the alkaline metals, sodium, can be deposited into an evacuated tube, or even into an ordinary electric light, substitution of potassium for sodium in the electrolyte or solution used far the purpose gave negative results. In the recent tests, however, glass containing potassium instead of sodium was used, and the potassium was deposited successfully.-Science Service
