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...most important work that the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry accomplished in a year was the discovery of the germ that occasionally makes cheese poisonous...
...powerless to act against it, because the actual cause of influenza has never been determined. The advice we give anyone suffering from a cold or the grip at this time of the year is either to stay in bed, or at home, and not to circulate the germ...
...Geneva, Switzerland, Bacteriologist Henry Spahlinger heard a sudden explosion and felt himself splashed with slime. The container in which he was culturing virulent tuberculosis germs had burst. Knowing well the danger of infection the scientist stripped off his clothes and for two hours scrubbed his equipment and laboratory with germ-killing lysol. What germs he had involuntarily inhaled he hoped would die off be fore they could harm...
Louis Pasteur (1822-95) originated the cure for incipient hydrophobia in humans. He had confirmed positively that germs cause disease and that some might be killed by heat. This is the principle upon which milk is pasteurized, an important point. But of far greater importance in medicine is another fact that Louis Pasteur verified - many diseases may be prevented and cured by injecting into the patient an attenuated solution of the very germ that caused the disease. This is immunity, and was first applied with scientific precision to humans by Louis Pasteur in the 1880's. With hydrophobia, this...
...first international tuberculosis conference held in the U. S. (The second took place last month; TIME, Oct. 18.) Since then he has been whipping his mind to and fro in an effort to find some cause for cancer. Once he thought that this disease was caused by a germ because he found the same germ in cockroaches and cancerous rats that ambled about a Copenhagen sugar refinery. He has modified his views since then...