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Last week, in ample time for the regular summer season of infantile paralysis, Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan, one of the vaccine inventors, disclosed a simple, speedy test of a child's susceptibility to the disease. A mouse and a special filtrate, which any careful bacteriologist can make with a few mice and some potent infantile paralysis virus, are all a doctor needs...
...germ, Pityrosporum ovalis, had long been suspected in dandruff. But no bacteriologist before Drs. Moore & Kile had been able to cultivate it for more than two or three generations. Trouble was that in the beginning most bacteriologists thought that Pityrosporum ovalis could be cultured like diphtheria or scarlet fever bacteria. Actually the germ of dandruff is a fungus like yeast and needs special soil for growth. Drs. Moore & Kile raised it on wort agar...
...Francis Christopher McCormack, Holy Name's medical director, summoned Bacteriologist William Hallock Park of New York City's Department of Health and Pathologist Leila Charlton Knox of St. Luke's Hospital to take the nine dead babies apart and search for the cause. Able Drs. Park and Knox could find no germ, no poison to account for the deaths...
...York University insurance lecturer and an able bacteriologist mother who had four academic degrees of her own, he matriculated in N. Y. U. at 5. At 10 he passed Harvard's entrance examinations, but waited until he was 12 to enter Columbia. He got a Phi Beta Kappa key at 14, an A. B. at 15, an M. A. at 15, a Th. B. (Bachelor of Theology) from General Seminary at 18, a Columbia Ph. D. at 20. Two years ago he was ordained an Episcopal priest, assigned to a small parish in outlying Astoria. His Columbia classmates remember...
Retired. Dr. Anna Wessels Williams, 71, bacteriologist; on a $3,300 pension; from the assistant directorship of the New York City Health Department's laboratories; despite vigorous protests from Dr. Williams & colleagues (TIME, March 26). Reason...