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...fungi (e. g., athlete's' foot), 71 to insects (e. g., scabies), 56 to protozoa (e. g., malaria), 13 to spirochetes (e. g., syphilis) and five to Rickettsia (e. g., rocky mountain spotted fever). Affiliated with these nefarious swarms are 25 scarcely identifiable "inclusion bodies" or Chlamydozoa which cause a bracket of diseases including smallpox, rabies, parrot fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Virus Diseases | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...Chlamydozoa are so small that they filter through the pores of unglazed porcelain. Filterable likewise, and invisible by means of the most potent microscopes yet invented, are 25 other substances which are known to cause specific diseases (infantile paralysis, common cold, mumps) and 21 substances which are presumed to cause in man scarlet fever, trachoma, encephalitis, influenza, measles, German measles, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, venereal warts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Virus Diseases | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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