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Foul Eating Gear. Germ-carrying utensils and dishes in public restaurants are a general menace. W. A. Hadfield and J. W. Yates of Madison, Wis., advised that all eating gear, after washing, be soaked for at least one minute in rinse water to which sodium hypochlorite has been added. Chlorine is liberated and kills bacteria...
...tuberculosis bacillus is a tiny rod-shaped germ, which causes peculiar little translucent, greyish nodules the size of millet seeds. The phthisis victim loses weight, wastes away. He suffers from a fever that fluctuates with the time of day.* Prevention should start in childhood, the period when a predisposition to the disease may be developed, Professor Gaetano Ronzoni, of Milan, said to the International Union. Later, it is possible to cure a patient with persistent, attentive care...
Zeiss microscope makers of Jena showed a cinema reel of unicellular life-isolated bacterium pneumococcus (pneumonia), bacterium streptococcus (pus), saccharomyces (yeast). It is possible to infect and kill an animal with a single germ. Such a germ proliferates to form a colony...
Binz and Raeth of Berlin asserted that they had sorted out from cancer pus a fat little, wand-shaped germ which they were able to breed. They could look at it under a microscope and believe it to be a parasite whose virus may cause some type of cancer...
...stays away from college he must work all the harder, and indeed in that very effort may sometimes lie the germ of successful authorship. Mark Twain was a student all his life, a great reader and an absorber of history. I remember when he became interested in a certain memory system which I was trying to master at the same time. It is said that while experimenting with it he committed to memory the front page of the New York Sun on a train between New York and Hartford, and recited it to his wife on his arrival...