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Since the old scourge of tetanus can be controlled by injections of antitoxin, the main germ to worry about in open wounds is the bacillus which causes gas gangrene. Open wounds should be treated thus: 1) all glass, bullets, stones, shrapnel, etc. must be cut out of the wound; 2) all dead and bruised tissue-breeding grounds for the bacillus-must be snipped away so that the blood stream can get directly at the germs and destroy them; 3) sulfanilamide powder should be sprinkled on the raw surface, and the patient kept at rest...
...League of Nations still carries on in Geneva with a skeleton staff. Reported the New York Times last week: "Some 700 periodicals are classified and read on reception. . . . The health services supply 'friend or foe' a weekly report on impending bacillus invasion threats...
...hour. It dropped no bombs. But on the ground near the two main gates to the city, scattered grains of rice and shreds of cotton cloth were later found. The police destroyed them, but saved some samples for testing. The samples were full of Pasteurella pestis, the short oval bacillus of bubonic plague...
...important, highly technical work on Bright's disease (of the kidneys), thrombosis (formation of blood clots), arterial disease. He also performed some of the pioneer experiments in the cause of diphtheria. Perhaps his most significant contribution was his discovery of a germ which became his namesake, the Bacillus welchii, producer of gas gangrene. This was his last piece of laboratory research. In the early 1900s he gradually moved into the spotlight, began "charming and beguiling" millionaires out of money for public health, lighting firecrackers under stodgy old professors, hammering principles of hygiene into the public ear. For some years...
...discoverer of the scarlet fever bacillus, Dr. Frank Burr Mallory, '86, professor emeritus of Pathology, died Saturday night...