Word: bacteria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Williams & Wilkins-$8.00). Dr. d'Herelle did not set out, as did Dr. Crile, to explain the nature of life or of death. His chief interest has been with diseases and their causes. He has dealt with what once was considered the lowest form of life- bacteria. He has ended by hypothesizing an even lower form, the protobe, which is neither animal nor vegetable,-simply something living. One type of protobe, the bacteriophage, he has made his peculiar study. He has found that it is the scourge to bacteria, which in turn cause disease in man. Just as almost...
...yard and then chew it, learned last week from inveterate conners of the Journal of the American Medical Association that pure clay, kaolin, kept in motion with fluids, is beneficial in Asiatic cholera, bacillary dysentery, chronic ulcerative colitis and acute enteritis. In some cases the clay carries away intestinal bacteria, in others mixes with their toxic products. The Journal warns inexact thinkers that many other supposedly beneficial effects of clay-eating are spurious...
Plague, most feared of infectious diseases, is spread by rats and ground squirrels. In stamping it out from California, where it last appeared in epidemic form, it has been suggested that rats be destroyed by infecting them with bacteria, which would be passed from one rat to another and thus bring about wholesale extermination. On the other hand, investigators for the State Board of Health find possible contamination of human food from such infected rats. Experiments failed to demonstrate any great efficiency in the so-called exterminators but showed that they might lead to the production of a chronic carrier...
...Beneath it, no whit discomfited by the exuberant blasts of a steam whistle, there moved toward an uptown dock: Jeweled crabs, fish with eight "hands," fish with transparent panes set into their stomachs, fish with navigation lights, sex-appeal lights, food-luring lights, fish with folding films of luminous bacteria, a devilfish with a beam of 18 ft., parasite fish with suckers on their heads for clinging to the bellies of carnivorous hosts...
Chemical War. The U. S. brought up the advisability of banning exportation of poison gas. Hungary brought up the question of abolishing the use of bacteria in war. Considerable differences arose concerning chemicals and bacteria designed for war and those for peaceful scientific purposes. The Conference ultimately adopted a protocol generally prohibiting chemical and bacteriological warfare as laid down in the Washington Treaty...