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...living creatures harbor a variety of germs. That fact irked Pasteur and a succession of other bacteriologists. They proved that certain germs caused certain diseases. They could grow pure cultures of such germs in test tubes and petri dishes. But never alone in living creatures. Always other germs were present to contaminate the situation and possibly have an influence on the germs under study. Pasteur and successors longed for germ-free ''living test tubes." Last week Professor James Arthur Reyniers of the University of Notre Dame announced that at last he has raised Pasteur's desire-germ...
...world had already heard of Dr. Gladys Rowena Henry Dick who, with her Doctor-Husband George Frederick, had in 1923 isolated the scarlet fever germ and discovered a serum for the disease. The Dicks were thinking of adopting two Cradle children, which they later did, a boy and a girl. To The Cradle came Dr. Gladys to make bacterial examination of the food. Her chief discovery: that the powdered milk, the babies' chief basis for nourishment, unboilable and hence unsterilized, was carrying the germs that caused the epidemic of dysentery. It was through her report-subsequently made public...
...with both. Whereas primitive organisms are bundles of inherited reaction patterns and higher animals are resultants of heredity plus environment, Dr. Hrdlicka believes that man can promote or suppress the unfolding of his heredity by acts of volition. This may lead to actual physical or chemical changes in the germ-plasm, in the operation of the genes, carriers of heredity. "Such changes," said Dr. Hrdlicka, "if benign, may start differentiation, and under special circumstances, conceivably, evolution...
...albino for the same reason that occasional humans are: congenital lack of black pigment cells in the skin. For some reason albino frogs are far rarer than albino humans, lobsters, squirrels, peacocks, porcupines. About one out of every seven normal humans carries the albino inheritance in his germ-plasm as a recessive Mendelian character, and one person in every 25,000 is an albino. Albinism has been recorded in the great majority of animal and plant species. But Dr. Noble, contemplating Whitey, guessed that possibly not more than one like her could be found among millions of pond frogs. Naturalists...
...past 27 years the Flexner type of serum has been standard treatment for cerebro-spinal meningitis. The doctor sticks a hollow needle into the patient's rigid spine. Out squirts a quantity of the germ-laden cerebro-spinal fluid, which has been imprisoned under pressure. When the squirt slows down the doctor injects the serum...