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...ruptured appendix, perforated stomach ulcer or gallbladder. It has been effective in postoperative wounds, endocarditis, suppurative mastoiditis, and tonsillitis. Some cases of erysipelas (also a streptococcic infection) have yielded to Prontosilmedication. The drug also has ameliorated severe cases of carbuncles and cellulitis due to staphylococcus, a different kind of germ...
...first Simplicio & Lucio Godino, Siamese twins, believed that Lucio suffered simply from a cold. Next a Manhattan doctor decided that Lucio had pneumonia, a disease caused by a definite germ. When the twins went to York Hospital, a small private institution, the Press at first treated the case as a funny publicity stunt developed to promote the vaudeville act of the twins and their wives. Lucio's pneumonia turned out to be rheumatic fever, a virus-caused disease, which attacked his heart, killed him fortnight ago and necessitated the severance of the thick isthmus of flesh & bowel which bound...
...Lucio was buried, Simplicio showed no bad effects of a second, plastic operation which gave him a rectal outlet of his own. Then his vitality wavered. Doctors gave him a blood transfusion. Next thing the doctors knew was that Simplicio had a full-fledged attack of cerebrospinal meningitis, a germ disease apparently unrelated to any symptoms which the doctors had heretofore noticed in either of the Siamese twins, before or after they were separated. Of that cerebrospinal meningitis, Simplicio Godino, only adult ever severed from his twin, last week died...
...depends on the germ carrier...
There is the germ of a good idea in these dismal remarks, but only a germ and an anaemic one at that, for it is too obvious that the writer knows almost nothing about contemporary college life, at least in any Eastern university. His little utopia, by college spirit out of Bryn Mawr, overlooks the fundamental fallacy of its existence, which is that college spirit is too worn out and decrepit to beget more than a weakling doomed to an early death--even with the assistance of Bryn Mawr. It does exist at a football game, and in a certain...