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...medical director, summoned Bacteriologist William Hallock Park of New York City's Department of Health and Pathologist Leila Charlton Knox of St. Luke's Hospital to take the nine dead babies apart and search for the cause. Able Drs. Park and Knox could find no germ, no poison to account for the deaths...
...whisper reached Nazi ears. Because this little rebellion of southern Protestantism against Nazi regimentation might be the germ to infect the whole body of the Third Reich, Realmleader Hitler himself went quietly to Munich to watch developments...
Medicine suspects any theory that germs cause cancer. Likewise Medicine is stubbornly skeptical of any theory that germs can be advantageously used to treat cancer. Dr. Coley invented his anti-cancer toxin, Coley's Fluid, 40 years ago. It is a mixture of the toxins produced by the germ of erysipelas and a harmless germ called Bacillus prodigiosus which grows on food. Prodigiosus toxin fortifies the action of erysipelas toxin. Together they have cured an appreciable number of people dying of cancer, and together they have in numerous instances prevented the spread of cancer to remote parts...
...years ago Heitz of Germany showed that the chromosomes in the fruit fly's salivary glands were greatly enlarged-70 times bigger than the germ-plasm chromosomes. Last year Dr. Theophilus Shickel Painter of University of Texas found cross bands on the giant chromosomes which he thought might have something to do with gene locality. Then affable, bushy-haired Dr. Bridges refined his photomicrographic technique to such a point that the chromosomes appeared as twisted strings of flat, irregular beads, and the cross bands were seen to be mosaics of infinitesimal cylinder ends. Dr. Bridges did not identify either...
Explosions of derision and disbelief immediatety followed publication of Dr. von Bremer's ideas in the U. S. Cockroaches have been blamed for causing cancer by no less a person than Nobel Prizewinner Johannes Fibiger of Denmark. Many a lesser light has offered a variant of the germ theory. Subtle irritants, chemical or mechanical, have been suggested. Likewise cancer has been attributed to nervous strain, city life, life itself, breakdown of individual body cells, degeneracy of the entire constitution...