Word: bacterium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Researcher Beckman studied the cells, concluded that there must be some bacteria which would eat the cellulose walls, release the oil. In brewer's malt he found the bacterium Bacillus delbrueckia, which was apparently hungry enough to accomplish this...
...however, know many contributory factors," the lecturer explained, "by the avoidance of which we may hope to prevent the disease. Cancer is not contagious, and the best evidence is against the view that it is caused by any specific bacterium as is pneumonia. In animals inbred for many generations the disease would appear to be hereditary, but many factors such as the deliberate universal out-breading makes it possible to say that in many cases cancer is not directly inheritable...
...Sutliff first will present the problem, which he describes as follows: "The newer studies of lobar pneumonia have demonstrated something of the chemical constitution of the bacterium known as the pneumococcus which causes the disease. The organism consists of a proteim center and a capsule or outer coat that contains a carbohydrate. Although the pneumococci are otherwise very similar they differ in the exact composition in their capsules. It is possible to differentiate promptly 22 fairly common varieties that may cause the disease, lobar pneumonia...