Word: bacillus
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...Journal of Cancer. The patient, a woman dying from recurrent cancer of the breast, came to the attention of Dr. Mendel Jacobi of Brooklyn. Dr. Jacobi injected a small quantity of a solution under the skin of the woman's diseased armpit. That solution was a filtrate of Bacillus typhostis, the germ which causes typhoid fever. Twenty-four hours later Dr. Jacobi administered a second injection of the filtrate intravenously...
...Black Plague. Those probably were the first germs ever noted. As microscopes were improved more kinds of animalcula were observed, and doctors gradually associated them with disease. But not until 1876 was a germ proved to be a cause of a disease. The disease: anthrax in cattle. The germ: Bacillus anthracis. The discoverer: Robert Koch...
...short trip to Kalaupapa. There, with a Japanese cameraman filming the proceedings and Honolulu Undertaker Jacob K. Ordenstein directing operations, nuns, clergy and officials stood by the grave, watched its concrete top cracked away, the plain coffin exhumed. Because there was no longer any danger of spreading Bacillus leprae, no need existed to sterilize Father Damien's mouldering bones and dust, according to President Frederick E. Trotter of the Honolulu Board of Health. In an undersized, zinc-lined coffin of koa wood, the remains were flown back to Honolulu, where they lay in state. Aboard the U. S. Army...
...theory that germs which produce such disintegrating enzymes produced different kinds of enzymes according to the flesh on which they lived, Dr. Connell bred a strain called Bacillus histolyticus on cancers which he excised from the bodies of patients of Kingston's General Hospital, on whose staff he serves. He was cheered on by his father, Dr. James Cameron Connell, 72, who had also served on the hospital staff and was longtime dean of Queen's University Faculty of Medicine, Kingston. After due orthodox experiments on cancerous mice, young Dr. Connell began to inject the sterile nitrate...
Acne also seems to be associated with sagging viscera, sluggish bowels, and intestinal toxemia. There is an acne bacillus. But it probably merely thrives on the disease, does not cause...