Word: bacteriologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baby, instead of dying, "showed marked improvement . . . within 24 hours," and in a few days the sulfapyridine conquered flu germs as well as pneumococci. Happy Dr. McLeod passed the glad news on to the U. S. Public Health Service, and Bacteriologist Margaret Pittman set to work in her laboratory to make sure his lucky hit was indeed...
...Bacteriologist Pittman was not completely satisfied, urged that sulfapyridine be given "further trial." Her experiments had shown that "[sulfapyridine] did not prevent the bacteria from entering the bloodstream, but it apparently retarded their increase in the blood...
Vitamin C. While conning statistics of a poliomyelitis epidemic in Australia last year, Bacteriologist Claus W. Jungeblut of Columbia noticed that patients with ill-balanced diets suffered far more from the disease than those who had lots of vitamin C. Dr. Jungeblut put the statistics to experimental test, by going to work on some monkeys. He dribbled small amounts of polio virus into the noses of 56 monkeys, then gave them injections of natural vitamin C. Result: 33 monkeys (59%) became mildly sick, but had no fever or paralysis. The remaining 23 "developed complete or partial paralysis of the extremities...
...Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, who kept kennels of mad dogs in a crowded little laboratory and was hounded by medical criticism, had never tried his rabies vaccine on a human being before. But moved by the tears of Mme Meister, he finally took the boy to the Hotel-Dieu, had him injected with material from the spinal cord of a rabbit that had died from rabies. For three weeks Pasteur watched anxiously at the boy's bedside. To his overwhelming joy, the boy recovered...
...Jesuit St. Louis University last week bounced a distinguished bacteriologist. He was the first U. S. university professor known to be dismissed for supporting the Loyalist cause in Spain...