Word: staphylococcus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lobular pneumonia may be contracted through the air passages or by invasion through the blood system of many different kinds of germ?Micrococcus lanceolatus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, the tubercle bacillus, occasionally even the glanders bacillus, actinomyces (rayed fungoid), oidiomyces (egg-shaped fungoid...
...small that it has been impossible to draw conclusions. In cases of infection due to streptococcus viridans, and in cases of pyelonephritis failures have been recorded. There have been marked successes, however, in the use of mercurochrome against pneumonia in children, against septicaemia, streptococcus hemolyticus and pyogenes, staphylococcus and against many other general and local infections. When the uses of mercurochrome are thoroughly determined, the result may be the "greatest conquest of disease in the history of medicine." - Dr. Hugh H. Young, Johns Hopkins University...
...dullness are distinguished for Catholics, Methodists, Seventh Day Adventists, Theosophists, Protestants and Jews! The diagnoses seem to be restricted in number, but include several serious microbic diseases ? tuberculosis, typhoid, acquired or congenital "diminished resistance" (euphemistic for syphilis), carcinoma (cancer), sarcoma (tumor), gonorrhea, malaria, influenza, colon septicaemia, streptococcus and staphylococcus infections. Most patients have traces of several of these, and the majority are found to have some form of syphilis. Autographs of Samuel Johnson, Poe, Longfellow, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Pepys and Bret Harte have been tested by Dr. Abrams, revealing that all of them suffered from various dread diseases...