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After meeting [[underlined in red]] A.A. Noyes [[/underlined in red]] consulted me about some research work of one of his pupils, Walter is his name, who has been studying the formula of perchloride acid by the electrolysis of dilute HCl.  Yields are quite considerable.
Evening Banquet of [[underlined in red]] Academy at Harvard Club. Dr. Welsh [[/underlined in red]] gave an informal report on his recent experiences in hospitals in England and France and emergency surgical wards at the front. Says the [[underlined in red]] british [[strikethrough]] are splen [[/strikethrough]] hospitals are splendidly organized, the french not quite [[/underlined in red]] so well. This is an opportunity for surgeons and pathologists and physiologists to study an abundant number of unusual cases. Says some of the wounds inflicted [[underlined in red]] are practically cases of vivisection [[/underlined in red]] where [[sometimes?]] part of the [[underlined in red]] brain is neatly taken away by a fragment of a shell [[/underlined in red]] or a bullet.
[[underlined in red]] Cases of tetanus [[/underlined in red]] [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] are remarkably
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seldom since [[underlined in red]] tetanus toxin is used and all wounds are treated as if they were septic. [[/underlined in red]]
The most pitiable cases are not those of the wounded but of combatants where [[underlined in red]] nervous systems [[/underlined in red]] is entirely wrecked.  Cases of major hysteria. -- or "la grande histoire 
^[[history]] as [[underlined in red]] Charcot [[/underlined in red]] called it resulting in effects like total [[underlined in red]] blindness, etc altho' there is no wound nor lesion of the corresponding organs. [[/underlined in red]]
He added that in fact he would not like to communicate freely out of these four walls is that [[underlined in red]] about 80% of these nervous wrecks are total abstainers. [[/underlined in red]]  That this did not indicate that their nervous condition resulted from the non use of alcoholic beverages but that they probably [[underlined in red]] were total abstainers because they had found that their nervous system could not stand the use of alcohol. Dr. Leon (?) [[/underlined in red]] president of the [[underlined in red]] Philosophical Society of Philadelphia [[/underlined in red]]