Word: bacterias
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Last week* the Journal complained that advertising is leaning heavily on references to the medical profession, with more & more emphasis on throat irritation. Huffed the Journal: "It would be difficult indeed to differentiate between the irritation caused by the smoking of cigarettes and that caused by various bacteria, chemicals or heat." If the cigarette companies do not mend their talk, it hinted darkly, the Government might crack down...
Soils are made of mineral particles mixed with organic matter and crawling with living organisms, from bacteria to woodchucks. These living things, especially the plants, have more influence on the character of the soil than does the rock or other material out of which the soil was formed. Generally a soil on which a certain kind of vegetation has been growing for a long time develops characteristics which are specially favorable to that sort of plant...
...agreement with his colleague, Dr. Moore held the cause of the epidemic as emanating from toxin generating sta-phylococus bacteria. He was forced to qualify this judgment, however, since he had no cultures of the suspected food to work...
Both noted that the particular bacteria involved were not of themselves harmful if taken cold internally. Only if they are allowed to get warm, within food they produce a toxious substance which produced observed reactions of dysentery and nausea...
...streptomycin-plus was tried on 50 patients. It fought bacteria just as well as the original, but streptomycin-resistant bacteria resisted it too. But doctors could give two to three times as much for a longer time without causing deafness, dizziness or kidney damage. It can also be given to patients who are very sensitive to streptomycin...