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...measured them. The diameter of each one is between 20 and 30 millicrons or about one-billionth of an inch.† Also, he has seen how they destroy a bacterium. One or more bacteriophages, of the kind peculiar to the bacterium under study, penetrate the body of the germ. There they breed until they number some 18, when they become too many for the bacterium to contain any longer. It explodes into floccules, minute yet visible below the microscope lens. These floccules quickly dissolve...
...metamorphosis gave the reporters opportunity to contrast his bald pate to the departed curls; his tall height to the coquettish figure of the book. Vivian himself whimpered, "No matter where I go or what I do, there is always the reference to the fact that I was the germ of the Fauntlerpy story. ... It wasn't I-" his voice broke. "I wasn't like that...
...Goiter Germ? Last week a modest man spoke diffidently before the Toledo, Ohio, Academy of Medicine. He was Dr. Andre Crotti of Columbus, Ohio, who cautiously explained that after twelve years' research, he had isolated a minute organism constantly found in non-toxic goiter. He had never seen anything like it before; no one had ever described it; injected into a dog it had caused goiter. Lacking experimental facilities, he suggested that others carry on his research; perhaps he had found a cause of goiter other than the well-known lack of iodine...
...Dicks. Seven years ago in Chicago Dr. George Dick started to hunt for the germ of scarlet fever with hopes of developing a cure and a preventive. His own money income was meagre. He could get no supplement from institutions. So his wife, Dr. Gladys H. Dick, who has long been his coworker, found a job as technician in an Evanston, Ill., hospital, earned enough money to buy them laboratory supplies, scrimped over their household expenses. They found their germ and two years ago perfected their technique of cure and prevention. Topping this, to them satisfactory reward, the immunologists, bacteriologists...
...when Dr. Birkhaug was working at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore,** a friend suffering from erysipelas came to him. The doctor had been working on scarlet fever. But he decided to concentrate on erysipelas. He knew, as had long been known, that streptococcus pyogenes was the cause, that of this germ there are several strains, of which one is streptococcus erysipelatis. The problem was to isolate this particular strain and to develop from it a serum. He succeeded...