Word: bites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brownsville, Texas, has crystallized the venom from 24,000 rattlesnakes and collected it in three hermetically sealed glass jars. He annually buys and sells thousands of snakes, and distributes the yellowish poison crystals free of charge to scientists throughout the world who are experimenting on antitoxins for snake bite. He supplied the great snake farm established by the Brazilian Government at Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...Pearce went to the Belgian Congo, where she used it extensively in the treatment of African sleeping sickness among the natives. Her results proved it to be the most valuable drug for the treatment of this disease, which is caused by a germ called Trypanosoma gambiense, transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, and is distinct from the disease known as sleeping sickness in temperate zones (encephalitis lethargica). Dr. Pearce is but 37 years old, a graduate of Stanford and Hopkins. She has already made a name for herself among the country's leading pathologists...
...epidemic," is engaging the attention of New York health authorities. Since January 1 over 112 deaths from the disease have been reported in Greater New York, the rate having intensified within the past week. This malady should not be confused with African sleeping sickness, which is transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, but is a frequent accompaniment of influenza and other winter diseases. Dr. Frank J. Monaghan, who has just succeeded Senator Copeland as New York's health commissioner, believes that the germ or other cause of the disease can be found, and has put his laboratory...
...having but a vague a recollection of what Socrates said about the value of a gad-fly in stirring up the Athenians, I have turned to the Century Dictionary for a description of the-beast. I find that it is "very active, voracious, blood-thirsty, with great powers of biting. The bite is deep and painful, often drawing blood, though not poisonous...
...attention is called to the lecture by Doctor Afranio Amaral of the Institute Soroterapico on the "Treatment of Snake-bite". Poughkeepsie and Northampton papers please copy...