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The article reports on the success in the use of Tryparsamide, a new arsenic compound developed for the treatment of African sleeping sickness, as a remedy for paresis at the Wisconsin Psychiatric Hospital in Madison. The drug was discovered in 1915 by Doctors Walter A. Jacobs and Michael Heidelberger of the Rockefeller Institute in New York. In 1920, Doctors Wade H. Brown and Luise Pearce studied the action of tryparsamide on animals and found that the drug was valuable for the treatment of African sleeping sickness.

Presents quotes from various publications related to political and social events that took place around the world. Report from the newspaper "The New York Times" on attack against the Russians by German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler; Report from the newspaper "The New York Times" on employment of the Italians in defense industries; Description in "The New York Times" of damages caused by the use of arsenical compounds; Article form the column "News Outside the Door," by J. Otis Swift in the periodical "The New York World-Telegram"; Announcement by Finnish President Risto Ryti on a military policy, reported in the periodical "The New York World-Telegram."