Word: bacteria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assembly in Geneva were published. The committee consisted of experts from the College of France, the Royal Institute of Florence, the University of Breslau, the Pasteur Institute, and Harvard, Copenhagen, Rome and Columbia Universities. It was appointed to investigate the possibilities of the use of poison gases and of bacteria in future wars...
Dairy products: more than 1,000 seizures, having to do chiefly with butter lacking in butterfat, watered milk, milk contaminated with bacteria...
...Verbrycke, Jr., of Washington, D. C., has reported a death following infection with this bacteria. The patient was a widow, aged 67, whose infection had occurred from some market rabbits brought home by her son five days before her illness. These she had prepared for cooking. This is the first case reported in which the disease was contracted by the handling of infected rabbits for cooking. The other forms of infection thus far reported have been by the bite of a blood-sucking fly and by accidental infection in the laboratory...
Carbonization, the injection of carbon dioxide gas into beverages for the purpose of making them "sparkle", was recommended by the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (Pittsburgh). A series of tests showed that the more carbon dioxide in a beverage, the smaller was the number of bacteria which survived...
...Infectious Diseases, Chicago, have isolated a streptococcus* from a patient with scarlet fever with which they have been able to produce scarlet fever in two out of ten volunteers who asked for the innoculation. Now they have discovered that the fluid which may be filtered from growths of these bacteria apparently contains a toxin, and that it may be used for tests which will show whether or not a person is likely to become infected with scarlet fever on exposure to the disease. The test used is a specific skin test much like the Schick test that is used...