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Denver's Dr. Harry Corper, 65, who developed the test, is an oldtime foe and onetime victim of the white plague. An army major in World War I, he moved to Denver in 1919 and accepted the post of head researcher at the National Jewish Hospital (for poor T.B. patients). He has spent the last 30 years in his cluttered office and spotless laboratories trying to find ways to outmaneuver and defeat the tubercle bacillus. Still bright-eyed and vigorous but looking something like a fugitive from a Stanley Steamer, Dr. Corper wears a grey peaked...
Like most medical researchers, Dr. Corper works long & hard for unsensational results. Basically optimistic about eventually licking T.B., he is wary of new "cures." But last week he was determined to stay in the fight until "I work myself...
Catching the price a cent below what they last paid, the auto companies came in. Copper sales picked up; in a few days twice as much was sold as in the month of March, copper finishing mills kept running at 50% to 60% of capacity. Loss to corper companies on the cut: $1,200,000. Saving to auto manufacturers: nearly 60 per unit & parts (mostly radiators...
...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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