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...Because silver compounds (e.g., Argyrol) are potent germicides, a black silver-plastic mixture which can be permanently coated about the rims of drinking glasses and bottles was developed by Physicist Alexander Goetz and Bacteriologist Ralph L. Tracy of Caltech. Within a short while after lip contact, the rather decorative rim completely sterilizes itself...
...Bacteriologist Justina Hamilton Hill, 47, though no doctor, is the chief woman working in urology in the U. S. Miss Hill makes all the bacterial tests in the Brady ("Diamond Jim") Urological Institute of Johns Hopkins, is now trying to find out how sulfanilamide works. She recently published a popular book on bacteriology (Germs and the Man). Hearty, exuberant Justina Hill is one of the most colorful of U. S. medical women...
...last time the United States tried conscription, we had plenty of double with epidemics in the camps. Ever since then, Army doctors and a few in private medical schools have been studying how to avoid them. The late Dr. Hans Zinsscr, a well-known Harvard bacteriologist, offered one solution. He said that the cause of the trouble lay in bringing too many men together from all parts of the country too quickly. Trying to harden them up too fast somehow set loose a lot of respiratory germs that some of them were carrying, and soon the camp would be afflicted...
After a patient wait, death came last week to Hans Zinsser, bacteriologist, physician, philosopher, poet, ironist, historian, raconteur. At 61, he died of chronic leukemia, a slow-moving, mysterious disease of the blood for which there is no known cure...
Still to be tried on a mass scale are new typhus vaccines which have been produced independently by breeding Rickettsiae on chicken eggs, both by Harvard's famed Bacteriologist Hans Zinsser and by Dr. Herald Rea Cox of the U. S. Public Health Service. About 8,000 doses of this new vaccine already have been sent to Hungary...