Word: bacillus
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...back as 1903, Koch warned doctors to beware typhoid carriers who show no signs of the disease, but carry in their gall bladders or intestines the germs with which others may be infected. Inoculation of such a carrier is wholly ineffective in destroying the typhoid bacillus which makes him a menace to society...
...thing that seems to foster the heavy growth and activity of the bacillus in the mouth is a diet rich in carbohydrates, especially sugar. A high bacillary count, in turn, is almost always found to be associated with a high rate of decay. At the orphanage it was found that caries [decay] could be practically eliminated, except in the over-susceptible group, by the feeding of a uniform, fairly adequate, low sugar diet...
...Likewise Medicine is stubbornly skeptical of any theory that germs can be advantageously used to treat cancer. Dr. Coley invented his anti-cancer toxin, Coley's Fluid, 40 years ago. It is a mixture of the toxins produced by the germ of erysipelas and a harmless germ called Bacillus prodigiosus which grows on food. Prodigiosus toxin fortifies the action of erysipelas toxin. Together they have cured an appreciable number of people dying of cancer, and together they have in numerous instances prevented the spread of cancer to remote parts of the victim's body. Some patients whom...
...whiskery, rod-shaped germ called Bacillus dysenteriae and related to both the colon and typhoid fever germs causes bacillary dysentery. The bacillus strikes the bowels more quickly and feverishly than does the ameba. On the other hand, the bacillus does less damage than the ameba, and yields to treatment more readily. Nonetheless, seven have died of bacillary dysentery in New Jersey, 278 have been hospitalized since July. Some cases have appeared in Manhattan and surrounding New York communities, but no notable number of deaths...
...York In firmary's Women's Medical College and a year of graduate study abroad, Dr. Williams joined the city's laboratory staff in 1895. One year later she made her first important contribution to preventive medicine - the discovery of a strain of diphtheria bacillus which produced an extremely virulent toxin. It made possible mass production of the anti-diphtheria serum which has nearly banished that dis ease from the world. Dog-bite victims once had to wait ten awful days to know if they had contracted rabies. In 1904, Dr. Williams and an Italian investigator discovered...