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Said a noted "Liberal": "The club, the spear, the bow and arrow, the gun, the bomb, the gas, the germ. . . . Get that picture! . . . Let us make no pious pretenses of being shocked. This is the logical development of war. . . . America, secluded, secure, satisfied, is tempted to forget...
...industrial workers with special permits. Food was delivered but no garbage or milk containers taken out. The dead were burnt at once. Those ministering to the pestilence-stricken went in and out wearing a sterilized habit, their faces masked. Doctors stated that a pneumonic rather than a bubonic germ was responsible for the disease, but awaited a final diagnosis. Deaths, which numbered 21 in 15 days, went on mounting...
...this he was expelled from the American Medical Association. Now he promises, through Cancer, a publication of the American Association devoted to the Study and Cure of Cancer, to give the details of his method in a forthcoming article. His theory is that the disease is caused by a germ which can be killed by the action of a chemical antitoxin in the body. This is a reasonable, almost a trite hypothesis. It is the formula of his synthetic antitoxin which is of absorbing interest to the medical world...
McGlone reappeared in uniform after his six-day quarantine as a carrier of the diphtheria germ, but did not take an active part in the practice. His time away from Soldiers Field was not wholly wasted, for during his brief rest he gained eight pounds, which brings him back to his normal weight of 150 pounds...
...more football player is temporarily lost to the University football squad it was learned last night. J. C. McGlone '26, who played in most of the games last year including the Yale game, has been quarantinued at the Stillman Infirmary as a carrier of the diphtheria germ...