Word: bacteriologist
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Discoverer of the mechanism of sulfa-therapy is Bacteriologist Paul Fildes of London. Certain bacteria, he found, mistake the sulfa-drugs for a vitaminlike substance-probably of the vitamin B complex-which they need for growth. Consuming the pseudo-vitamin instead of the real, the bacteria fail to multiply, so that the blood's white corpuscles can easily destroy their limited numbers. How slight is the lethal error which the bacteria make is shown by the similar chemical names: sulfanilamide is para-amino-benzene-sulfonamide; the growth factor is para-amino-benzoic acid...
...Many bacteria need another B factor, pantothenic acid, to thrive. So Bacteriologist Henry McIlwain of Sheffield, England, reasoned that bacteria might likewise mistake a compound called pantoyltaurine for its chemical relative, pantothenic acid. His hunch was right, and his discovery may well lead to development of a second group of bacteria-hoaxing chemicals comparable to the sulfa-group...
Rene J. Dubos, bacteriologist, of New York City, associate member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, who will become George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology and Professor of Comparative Pathology and Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Harvard Medical School next month...
...some 6,000 doctors who have fled from Hitler's Europe to the U.S., 3.500 have been licensed to practice. A few are eminent research men like the University of Chicago's Rudolf Schindler, University of Pennsylvania's Fritz Lewy, Bacteriologist Ernest Witebsky of Buffalo. But most have forsaken their specialties to become hard-working general practitioners-often in doctorless farming communities...
...Weiss was well known for his work in the bacteriology department, and up until the week before his death was treating another bacteriologist who had contracted a disease from a virus which he was studying...