Word: bacillus
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...blot on society, the symbol of all that was rotten in the industrial world. Against it, in a great crusade . . . turned the champions of a happier, more smiling life." The change in attitude came at the same time as a great advance in knowledge. Robert Koch isolated the tubercle bacillus and proved what Italians and Spaniards had contended for centuries-that TB is contagious. Many of the greatest authorities on the disease scoffed, and kept on insisting that the taint was hereditary or connected with climate...
...bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, two doctors of France's Pasteur Institute, who first tested it on calves...
...Botulin, manufactured by a common bacillus in badly preserved food, is the most deadly poison known: one ounce theoretically could kill 100 million people...
...from a world tour (at his own expense), during which he saw that tuberculosis is still riding high and fast in almost every country, Dr. O'Brien is convinced that the only hope of wiping out the disease lies in mass vaccination with the vaccine called BCG (for bacillus of Calmette and Guérin, the French scientists who developed it from 1908 to 1924). But health officials in the U.S., O'Brien charges, have neglected using BCG "through ignorance of its efficiency and misunderstandings* regarding its harmlessness...
Professor Domagk had found that the thiosemicarbazones were active against the tubercle bacillus and against no other germs (hence the name Tibione, derived from T.B. One). Because streptomycin and P.A.S. were hard to get in dollar-short Europe, German doctors used cheap-to-make Tibione lavishly on all kinds of tuberculosis sufferers...