Word: bacteriologist
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Doctor of Science: Alexander Fleming, Professor of Bacteriology in the University of London, St. Mary's Medical School; Hunterian Professor and Arriss and Gale Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons: "A bacteriologist of Great Britain whose discovery of penicillin in 1928 was the first step in the working of a modern miracle...
...every child with bad teeth had them fixed, there would be a lot more work for dentists and there might be a lot less infantile paralysis. So said Baltimore's Dentist Myron S. Aisenberg and Bacteriologist Thomas C. Grubb...
Last week, 73-year-old exPorter Burchell, attending serologist and bacteriologist in charge of the laboratory (now called "doctor" because of an honorary degree from Roanoke College), got professional recognition for his more than 50 years of achievement and service: the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology made him its first lay honorary fellow. At a three-hour ceremony, Dr. Burchell heard 18 eulogistic speeches, received a $2,000 "jubilee award" from his friends...
...cotton country, it hired high-school boys to spray the walls of nearly all the sharecroppers' shacks. Cost: 74? per house for DDT and labor. Result: a 94% reduction (for at least two months) in the number of mosquitoes in the treated houses. Dr. F. A. Knowles, bacteriologist of the Public Health Service, announced last week that as soon as more DDT is available for civilians, a nationwide spraying program will begin, to guard against infection from homecoming malarial servicemen...
...years the medical profession has politely raised its eyebrows and looked down its nose at Bacteriologist Edward Carl Rosenow. But Dr. Rosenow, a stubborn man, has persisted in his peculiar obsession. Says he: there is a strep-polio axis-somehow, in ways no doctor understands, streptococcus plays a malignant part in infantile paralysis. (A coccus is a round bacterium large enough to be seen with an ordinary microscope. A virus is so small it can be seen only with an electron microscope, has some bacteria-like and some protein-like qualities-no one knows for sure whether it is living...