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Soldiers who like duck eggs had better restrain their appetites when they invade Europe or the Dutch East Indies. Duck eggs often contain a variety of Salmonella -bacteria which cause paratyphoid fevers and intestinal disorders...
...white blood corpuscle). Three or four hours later, a second stage begins, during which lymphocytes decrease and monocytes (another kind of white corpuscle) multiply and migrate from the blood into the solid tissue. Cells and blood begin increased production of enzymes (digestive substances), opsonins (blood substance which makes bacteria an easy prey for fighter cells), and other protective materials. "I would compare the action of our serum," says the professor, "with the action of a match causing a conflagration...
Lockheed Aircraft research workers have made a new sulfa drug, desoxyephe-dronium sulfathiazole (a combination of an ephedrine compound which shrinks swollen membranes, and bacteria-fighting sulfathiazole), have treated more than 1,000 Lockheed colds with it. The drug was used as a nose-&-throat spray and as a nasal pack on cotton. Result: "Rather prompt relief." The spray cannot be bought without a prescription...
...inventor of this "electron microanalyzer" is a fledgling still in his late 20s, James Hillier, co-inventor of the electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940). The general atomic composition of bacteria and viruses is well known-they are mostly carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen. But under high electronic magnification (100,000 times), bacteria often reveal granules of previously undetected substances that are hard to identify. The granules are much too small to be analyzed by a spectroscope, the conventional instrument for the quick determination of atomic components...
That was all the coddling the bacillus rot, but that was enough. When 20 years were up last April, the bacteria in 33 of the tubes were very much alive. To find out whether the live germs were still killers, they were injected into 33 guinea pigs. Result: 22 guinea pigs got bubonic plague; eleven...