Word: infection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...setting a precedent which may easily lead to less harmless abuses of the American tradition of freedom. From prohibition of fascists in specific laboratories to a prohibition extending to graduate courses is no long step; from there the virus may spread to whole universities, and then go on to infect the entire educational system. Thus do such efforts to eliminate totalitarianism breed of themselves the germ they seek to destroy, and although Professor Bridgman has repeatedly maintained that science must know no nationalism if it is to continue to contribute to universal civilization, his present action contradicts to an alarming...
Tricinella spiralis is a microscopic roundworm that enters the human digestive system in undercooked pork, and burrows into the lining of the small intestine. Result: abdominal pains, diarrhea, muscular tenderness, even high fever, delirium and coma. Trichinae, which rarely infect children, may remain with a patient till the end of his life, often wander in the spinal fluid, lungs, heart, retinas and milk of nursing mothers. Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Archibald L. Hoyne and Abraham Alvin Wolf of Chicago reported a new form of trichinosis in an eleven-month-old Negro baby...
...declared: "The northwest end of Czechoslovakia forms a sort of foreign appendix in the body of the German Reich. This appendix cannot be allowed to remain in its present state of high inflammation. . . . If such a dangerous condition is neglected, the inflamed appendix would burst one day and instantly infect all Europe with political peritonitis...
Dogs droop and often die of distemper, a virus disease which affects them very much as influenza affects human beings. For experimental purposes scientists infect monkeys with the virus of distemper, just as they infect them with the virus of infantile paralysis. Last year, at Valhalla, N. Y., Dr. Gilbert Julias Dalldorf and associates* tried to inoculate monkeys with strains of both diseases at the same time and found that monkeys will not catch infantile paralysis while suffering from distemper. Last fortnight the Rockefeller Institute's Journal of Experimental Medicine presented the details of the experiments, as well...
...British medical officer named Frederick William Twort, who was preparing vaccines. When he stained one of his germ colonies he found nothing but the wreckage of dead bacteria. Whatever it was that killed them was able to pass in solution through a fine filter and then infect other colonies. Felix d'Herelle, a Canadian studying at France's Pasteur Institute, found that another kind of phage was fatal to the dysentery bacillus, and that dysentery patients treated with it showed improvement...