Word: bacillus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They could do little else. The influenza bacillus has never been isolated. Hence a specific cure or preventative has yet to be developed. But the nostrum men, flourishing in a medicinal half-world, made the most of last week's threat of epidemic. To the newspapers they went with their cleverly evasive advertisements to allure the flu-fearful. Such an advertisement was that for Japanese Oil (EN-AR-CO), which under the arousing headline FLU EPIDEMIC described the oil's use for head colds, sore throats, chest colds. Perhaps even more persuasive were advertisements for Turpo, Nozol, Harrison...
...cause ot tubercular growth, opens up an entirely new mode of approach in the search for an immunizing agent. In the past there has been no way of proving whether the growth of the tubercle in tubercular organisms was the result of direct action of the living bacillus...
...They recovered, having learned more about the strange malady. It is a slow fever with all the attendant aches, pains, chills, prostration, incapacitating the victim for months. Before achieving the dignity of a disease with a name, it had often been confused with typhoid because the germ resembles typhoid bacillus. Since its recognition 430 cases have been reported, 18 deaths; only nine states in the extreme northeastern U. S. appear to be unaffected...
...priest, who when examined by a reporter for El Eco de Mexico, Los Angeles, showed proof that he had been purposely inoculated with the bacillus of leprosy by the agents of Calles; other priests who have been inoculated with disease under the pretense of vaccination...
Group Activity. Mobilization of all Government, university, laboratory facilities for a concerted attack on disease was predicted by Dr. William Charles White of the U. S. Public Health Service at Washington. For six years scientists have been studying a pure culture of a single strain of tubercle bacillus, chemically, bacteriologically, physically. Thirteen trillions of the little bugs, over three gallon jars full, have been accurately analyzed; ten different substances have been isolated from them...