Word: bacteria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poland wished to have an embargo placed on the sale of bacteria for war purposes. Referred to committee...
Germs' Breath. How, what, do bacteria breathe? The animal organism that causes sleeping sickness needs oxygen but died of an overdose. The plant organism that causes tuberculosis also needs oxygen, died when deprived of it. The latter was thought to grow slowly in its human host not because it gets no oxygen, but because it gets very little.-Drs. F. G. Novy and M. H. Soule, University of Michigan...
...friendly to man, called it the Bacillus Bulgaricus, because it frequented the sour milk of Bulgaria. Recently Prof. Leo F. Rettger of Yale announced that he had experimented with an allied form of the Bacillus Acidophilus and demonstrated that, induced to breed in great quantities, it expells all harmful bacteria by its harmless self. Thus, puckering their mouths to imbibe the acidated lacteal fluid of bovines, young people, old people, sexa-and even octogenarians may continue to "ripe and ripe." Prof. Rettger also hinted that with these bacilli would be developed a typhoid cure...
...inhaling chlorin. Now The Journal of the American Medical Association offers an authentic opinion as to the present status of this method of treatment. "Chlorin inhalations," it says, "will not produce bacterial sterilization of the mucous membranes, although they seem to reduce to a considerable extent the number of bacteria found on the tissues. The length of an adequate treatment, the optimal concentration of gas to be used and the method by which the gas is to be produced have not yet been thoroughly worked out. The method must, therefore, be considered as still in the experimental stage...
...possibility of the use of bacteria, and the waging of a war of disease, this is fortunately less than the possibility of serious gas attacks. Water supplies can usually be fairly well guarded and protective measures taken to prevent the spread of disease, even if these sources are infected. There are filtering, chemical purification and vaccination as countermeasures. Bacteria, likewise, can not be distributed in shells as can gases, because the explosion would destroy them. They would have to dropped in glass tubes by airplanes. Everything considered, the danger, as compared to the use of gases, is small...