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Thus an important cause of dental caries, concluded Dr. Rosebury, is not mushy, refined foods but "certain hard, compact, carbohydrate-rich foods" which become forced into the crevices of the teeth and remain there as breeding grounds for bacteria...
...usual flood of colds, grippe, and flu in January is caused by the bringing in of new bacteria by men who have become infected during the Vacation. When one goes to a different part of the country, the change of climatic conditions, and the encountering of an atmosphere charged with different types of germs from those in Boston lower his resistance to common respiratory ailments. Students who bring these infections with them not only risk their own possible serious illness, but also they may spread them freely throughout the Harvard community...
Last week in Public Health Reports Dr. Armstrong told how he worked out his hunch. He washed the noses of normal white mice with salt water, then pooled the washings and dropped minute amounts of bacteria grown from the mixture into the nostrils of 200 mice several times in one week. After two days' rest he inoculated their noses, and the noses of 100 healthy control mice, with large quantities of sleeping sickness virus. More than 60% of the mice with "colds" survived the sleeping sickness injections; of the healthy, untreated mice, less than 25% survived...
...United States Public Health Service, addressed the doctors as they dined in Memorial Hall last night. The outstanding speaker at today's session will be Dr. Perrin H. Long of Johns Hopkins, who will speak at 3:30 o'clock on the adoption of sulfanilamide for the treatment of bacteria infections...
...conclusion Dr. Pickrell offered the following warning to doctors and drinkers: "If bacteria are aspirated (inhaled) into the lungs during alcoholic intoxication or ... anesthesia, they will grow uninhibited by the defenses of the body during the entire period of unconsciousness . . . regardless of the amount of immunity possessed by the body. . . . They may easily become so numerous that inflammation developing after recovery of consciousness may be unable to overcome them." Whether the popular habit of killing a cold with whiskey contributes to the pneumonia toll he did not say. Nor did he imply that the phrase "alcoholic intoxication" meant anything less...