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Leprologists rejoiced to learn last week that the leprosy germ has at last and repeatedly been grown in laboratory dishes. Possible ultimate control of the scourge is therefore in sight. The men who accomplished the feat are Professor Malcolm Herman Soule, University of Michigan bacteriologist, and Professor Earl Baldwin McKinley, dean of George Washington Medical school. Both are advisers to the Leonard Wood Memorial...
...some of his good humor. When beer is finally legalized, gangsters shoot old Hoffman and it takes his son (Richard Arlen) and several friends to avenge the old man's death with tactics they learned in the Army. Somewhere in all this there may have been the germ of a potent picture but if so it was sterilized by second-rate dialog and second-hand situations. What is left are a few authentic and interesting episodes-like the contest in wagon-loading by Hoffman's drivers-strung together on the thin thread of a skillful performance by Hersholt...
...city, the government may yet find that it has turned five thousand school teachers into five thousand radicals who will not be likely to teach children a proper respect for the present political system. Chicago in the past by its demonstrations against evictions has shown that it has the germ of such a radical group...
Experimental evidence discounts the possibility that germs cause cancer. Nonetheless, ever since the 1880's soon after microbes were first recognized as agents of disease, investigators have tried to connect germs with cancer. Most discussed recent proponent of the germ theory has been Dr. William Ewart Gye of London, who indicated a virus. Last year Dr. Edward Watts Saunders of Cornell suggested a streptococcus...
Last week Drs. Thomas James Glover of New York and Jacob Lenhert Engle of Philadelphia, after ten years' research, proposed a spore-bearing organism. They find the spore-bearing germ in human breast cancer, can grow the material like any germ, and with cultures produce secondary cancers in guinea pigs, animals notoriously difficult to render cancerous. The National Institute of Health thinks so well of Drs. Glover and Engle's work that it let their last week's announcement bear the Institute's cachet...