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Disease, death, disappointment and a great deal of hope stirred the meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists in Manhattan last week. President Karl Friederich Meyer could not attend. Director and bacteriologist of University of California's Hooper Foundation, Professor Meyer, 51, lay ill with parrot fever, which he had contracted while studying that disease...
Anna M. Pabst, 39, bacteriologist with the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington, was to read a paper at the New York meeting proving the impossibility of testing anti-meningitis serum on rabbits and guinea pigs. Night before her appearance she died of meningitis contracted when a guinea pig, into whose head she was injecting virulent meningitis germs, jerked out of her hands. The meningitis germs squirted into Miss Pabst's eye, sped to her brain, killed her in eight days, earned her a medical martyr's kudos...
...Professor Lloyd Lorenzo Arnold, University of Illinois bacteriologist, last week predicted: "Common head colds will cost the American people about $100,000,000 between now and Easter. . . . There will be 2,000,000 wage-earners who will be sick for at least eight days due to common colds...
...years ago Dr. Ralph Stewart Muckenfuss, 36, Washington University bacteriologist, achieved national reputation by managing the research which isolated the viruses which caused the epidemic of encephalitis in St. Louis (TIME, Sept.11, 1933 et ante). Last week Dr. Park, through Health Commissioner Dr. John Levi Rice, invited Dr. Muckenfuss to transfer to Manhattan and understudy until he could pass civil service examinations for Dr. Park's directorship...
...College, classmates found him a likeable but intensely serious young man who told many jokes without smiling. With an M. A. from Iowa, a Ph. D. from Cornell and two years of teaching experience at Virginia State College, "Pat" Patterson settled down at Tuskegee in 1930 as veterinarian and bacteriologist. When Dr. Atkins was murdered, he stepped up to the directorship of the Agricultural Department, biggest branch of the Institute. At 34, Frederick Douglass Patterson is still a serious young bachelor, with broad shoulders, greying hair and small mustache, who rises at 6 a. m., jogs twice around the Institute...