Word: staphylococci
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...Emmet Kennard Knott, a Seattle physicist and X-ray dealer, began to experiment with the effect of ultraviolet rays on the blood of dogs. In a local veterinary hospital he infected dogs with streptococci and staphylococci, withdrew a large amount of blood from their veins, irradiated it under an ultraviolet lamp, and put it back in circulation. Theoretically, the rays should have killed the germs. Instead, they killed the dogs...
...belief, he said, not contaminated water but plain swimming, even in pure pools, is responsible for the boils, middle ear inflammations, mastoid infections and sinusitis that afflict thousands of swimmers every summer. Water "macerates" delicate skin, washes away protective mucous in the nose, opens up "avenues of infection" for staphylococci and other virulent bacteria. To prevent serious infections, Dr. Taylor offered the following aquatic tips for terrestrials...
...those who took the position that phage was not alive was Albert Paul Krueger, who began studying the mysterious killer as a medical student at Stanford. For two years he continued his research at the Rockefeller Institute, went on to the University of California. He discovered a phage of staphylococci (pus germs), showed that its inactivation by heat followed the same course as that of a protein. Poisons such as potassium cyanide and bichloride of mercury inactivated but did not kill it-in other words, like protein, it regained activity after the poison was removed. Finally Rockefeller Institute...
...pharmacologists can ascertain, Prontosil does not attack the streptococci and staphylococci directly in the way that salvarsan ("606") inactivates the spirochete of syphilis. In some undeciphered manner Prontosil* stimulates the production of white blood corpuscles, guardians and scavengers of the blood stream, retards the growth of cocci...
Gonococci most frequently infect Fallopian tubes and ovaries; streptococci and staphylococci, the uterus. To cure such infections in women, doctors used to be obliged to resort to surgery. Dr. Virgil Sheetz Counsellor of the Mayo Clinic, recently told his colleagues that he cured 73% of such inflammatory cases with the Elliott treatment applied an hour a day for two to three weeks. Dr. Simpson in his last week's account reported 90% cures without surgery...