Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victims, was responsible for 40 deaths. Although this disease, a virus which attacks the nervous system, in some respects resembles infantile paralysis, practically all its victims are adults, not children...
...only scientific fact known about this disease is that it is caused by a specific virus. This was ascertained during the 1933 epidemic by one of the most vigorous and concentrated attacks on a disease ever made by Medicine. Immediate discoverers of that virus were Dr. McCordock; Dr. Charles Armstrong, virus expert of the U. S. Public Health Service; Dr. Leslie Tillotson Webster of Rockefeller Institute; Dr. Ralph Stewart Muckenfuss, then of St. Louis, now director of New York .City's famed Bureau of Laboratories...
...Louis' sleeping sickness is one of the two forms of encephalitis for which the causes are known.* The other is a Japanese type. Other, puzzling forms are: epidemic encephalitis, which Dr. Margaret Holden of Columbia University believes is also caused by a virus; Australian X disease; encephalitis following inoculation against diphtheria (rare); encephalitis following an attack of infectious disease, such as chickenpox, measles, whooping cough. Also of undetermined origin is the famed case of Chicago's Patricia Maguire, 31, who, drowsing for five and a half years, last week could not undergo a badly needed excision...
...atomizer. An extra amount of the protective solution is sprayed into the lower part of the child's nares. Then for a moment the child is held upside down, thus causing the liquid to flow against the nerves of smell which must be covered, if the virus of infantile paralysis is to be kept from invading the brain and spine...
...circumstance which prevents doctors going the whole hog in the case of Sulfanilamide is that they do not know whether it cures by killing germs and virus in the body or by stimulating the body to kill the invaders with its own, natural protective forces. And conscientious doctors use no drugs ignorantly. Another objection to Sulfanilamide is the fact that its toxicity is not known. After curing some people of blood poisoning, it seems to have caused agranulocytosis (a dangerous deficiency of white blood cells). When a doctor must decide between blood poisoning which is killing his patient...