Word: corper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Jewish Hospital has as director of its research laboratory Harry John Corper, Chicago-born pathologist. He has as co-worker Nao Uyei, U. S.-educated Japanese organic chemist. The two pottered around with sputum, acids, dyes and mediums on which bacteria grow. And eventually they found that sulphuric or hydrochloric acid would best dissolve the elements of the sputum undesirable in isolating the tuberculosis bacteria, that crystal violet dye best brought out the shape of the germs, that they flourished best on a chunk of potato. Now practically every tuberculosis hunter uses their test...
...Corper, of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, Denver, has shown experimentally that carbon dioxide (carbonic acid gas) has an inhibitory effect on the growth of tubercle bacilli...
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