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Died. Dr. Charles Edward North, 91, pioneering bacteriologist who coined the phrase "Grade A" during a turn-of-the-century study of the dairy industry that led to the stiffening of milk sanitation standards and a sharp drop in U.S. infant mortality; in Montclair...
...germfree animals as a tool in biological and medical research will be as natural in the future as the use of the microscope and carbon 14," says Bacteriologist James A. Reyniers. It was Reyniers, 53, who pioneered in germfree animal work for 30 years at the University of Notre Dame. Virtually all the germfree colonies now multiplying in a dozen medical centers on four continents are either descended from Reyniers' stock or were developed by his methods. Reyniers left Notre Dame two years ago to set up the Germfree Life Research Center in Tampa, Fla., where he is concentrating...
...most promising application of germfree research direct to man is in surgery. Despite all precautions, it has been impossible to protect a patient's wound completely against infection, which is still a common fatal complication of surgery. At Notre Dame, Bacteriologist Philip C. Trexler devised a plastic isolator, which has been modified at Walter Reed, and used at the University of Arkansas to deliver pigs...
...counterattack was London's huge Hammersmith Hospital. By late 1957 no less than 88% of Staph aureus cultures there were resistant to penicillin, 82% to tetra-cyclihe, and 70% were immune to attack by a combination of the two drugs. Then Dr. Mary Barber, 48, a topflight bedside bacteriologist, and her anti-staph team went into action...
...Biochemistry and other biological sciences are even less favored. Biochemists work in poorly equipped laboratories, and most of their meager funds are allocated to practical projects related to public health. There is little opportunity for basic research or the pursuit of promising but distant goals. Said Harvard's Bacteriologist Bernard Davis: "The Russians take planning seriously. A committee of elders decided what problems need solving this year...