Word: bacillus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Domagk had found that the thiosemicarbazones were active against the tubercle bacillus and against no other germs (hence the name Tibione, derived from T.B. One). Because streptomycin and P.A.S. were hard to get in dollar-short Europe, German doctors used cheap-to-make Tibione lavishly on all kinds of tuberculosis sufferers...
...World War I, he moved to Denver in 1919 and accepted the post of head researcher at the National Jewish Hospital (for poor T.B. patients). He has spent the last 30 years in his cluttered office and spotless laboratories trying to find ways to outmaneuver and defeat the tubercle bacillus. Still bright-eyed and vigorous but looking something like a fugitive from a Stanley Steamer, Dr. Corper wears a grey peaked cap and an oldfashioned, ankle-length canvas duster with note-stuffed pockets...
...Washington, U.S. Public Health Service officials had no plans for abandoning the only leprosarium on the continental U.S., at Carville, La. (390 patients). All states, except New York and Massachusetts, require isolation of leprosy victims. Patients are discharged when twelve monthly tests show no evidence of the leprosy bacillus. There is still no specific cure, but sulfone drugs like promin and diasone (close chemical relatives of the sulfas) speed up the time when patients can be released as noninfectious...
...Named for the Norwegian physician, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, who isolated the bacillus...
Died. Dr. John Elmer Weeks, 95, internationally known ophthalmologist and discoverer (with German Bacteriologist Robert Koch) of the bacillus which causes acute contagious conjunctivitis (pinkeye); in La Jolla, Calif...