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Paresis, or general paralysis of the insane, is a hitherto incurable brain disease caused by the penetration of Spirochaeta pallida, the germ of syphilis, to the higher nerve centers, and has been the object of attack by many neurologists without marked success (TIME, April 28). Malaria germs have recently been used to combat it. Since 1919, 42 advanced cases were treated with tryparsamide, 21 of which are now discharged and restored to useful work, and four more have shown great improvement. Whether the cures are permanent remains to be seen...
...Institute staff, and in 1920 Dr. Pearce went to the Belgian Congo, where she used it extensively in the treatment of African sleeping sickness among the natives. Her results proved it to be the most valuable drug for the treatment of this disease, which is caused by a germ called Trypanosoma gambiense, transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, and is distinct from the disease known as sleeping sickness in temperate zones (encephalitis lethargica). Dr. Pearce is but 37 years old, a graduate of Stanford and Hopkins. She has already made a name for herself among the country...
Sarah's "food boss" and d'Her-elle's "germ-eater...
...ancestors had to stretch to reach the foliage), was taken over in part by Darwin, who believed it to be one of the methods through which natural selection operates. Biologists then reacted from this doctrine until the opposite extreme was reached in August Weismann, whose theory that the germ-plasm of each generation is handed on and remains distinct from the body cells, logically excludes the transmission of acquired traits. Weismannism has held the field since 1890 and still dominates the thinking of most biologists...
...yellow. Kammerer also grew eyes in the sightless newt, which requires no eyes because it lives in greenish water depths. These results have been called in question by many biologists who claim that they are not instances of true inheritance, but merely of nutritive or chemical influences on the germ cells, the possibility of which is readily admitted...