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...Elsbach's treatment short-cuts all this. He uses a specially prepared salt solution of organic substances produced by the ordinary Bacillus coli, found in human intestines. No scratch tests are necessary, for the Coli Metabolin acts on all forms of hay fever. Somehow the compound has a tonic effect on the irritated sympathetic nervous system. Treatment consists of eight to twelve injections; the first five injections are given daily, the rest every other day. Said Dr. Elsbach: "Treatment before the onset of hay fever is not necessary but should be started when the first symptoms appear. A marked...
...years the U.S. has tried many a purely defensive measure against Japanese beetles, but last week its first large-scale offensive with hope of success was under way. The offensive was made possible by a newly developed weapon, the Bacillus papillae, which kills grubs under the soil before they turn into the brown-winged green beetles which every summer ravage the Atlantic seaboard from Chesapeake Bay to Long Island Sound...
Typhoid. Fortnight ago, workmen accidentally let the dirty Genesee River water flow into Rochester's water mains (TIME, Dec. 23). Since the typhoid bacillus may take as long as 42 days to incubate, Rochesterians last week still had days of suspense ahead of them. Many were cheered when a former superintendent of waterworks made the startling confession that the same mistake had been made several times before, "without too much publicity...
...Lewis Kohl was fired, Assistant Jones suspended. Within 72 hours, 5,000 persons had taken the first in a course of three typhoid vaccinations. From Albany the State Department of Health rushed 46,000 doses of vaccine. A thousand citizens fell ill with minor intestinal disturbances. Since the typhoid bacillus takes from seven to 42 days to incubate, the city remained in dreadful suspense...
Tuberculous Voltaire lived wizened and fire-eyed for 84 years. "In individuals in whom the tubercle bacillus grows meagerly . . ." observed Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, "[it] may make life more pleasant and make the individual more profitable to society than he otherwise would be." The passionate life-lust of John Keats's odes and sonnets is ironically accounted for in his autopsy: "The lungs were entirely gone; the doctors could not understand how he had lived the last two months." Professors often shake sad heads over their belief that had Keats (who died at 25) lived an average lifetime...