Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointed to the Medical School faculty in 1938. Formerly he was Field Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Medical Director of the Division of Communicable Diseases at Herman Kiefer Hospital, Detroit. He is well known as an investigator of the treatment of scarlet fever, diphtheria, erysipelas, meningitis, poliomyelitis, respiratory infections and other diseases. One of his studies for the Rockefeller Foundation was a four-year field research on scarlet fever in Rumania, an investigation in which bacteriologists in many European countries cooperated...
Generation ago, physicians spent most of their time rushing around to sick babies. Today, with scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles under control, most of their patients are oldsters. Although more than 30,000,000 persons in the U. S. are over 45, few doctors really know how the process of aging changes the human body. Last week in the New York Academy of Medicine, Cardiologist Ernst Philip Boas of Columbia, Neurologist Foster Kennedy of Cornell sounded off at a symposium on old hearts, old brains...
That soap and hot water will kill pneumococci, streptococci, gonococci, meningococci, diphtheria bacilli, and the syphilis spirochete, doctors have long known. Last week in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Bacteriologists Charles Chester Stock and Thomas Francis Jr. of New York University told of their successful experiments in making influenza vaccine from virus and soap solution...
...Starting with a hunch that there must be agents in the soil capable of breaking up almost anything organic, piling up experiments year after year. Dr. Dubos recently told how he isolated from soil bacilli a substance called "gramicidin," which-in experimental animals-kills pneumococci of five kinds, streptococci, diphtheria bacilli, and other "gram-positive" (blue-staining) germs, possibly including the tubercle bacillus (TIME, April...
Then Dubos found in soil samples a spore-bearing bacillus which actually kills five kinds of pneumococcus; staphylococcus (the pus germ), streptococcus, the diphtheria bacillus. The killing agent is a non-protein substance which Dr. Dubos has isolated in crystalline form. One hundred-thousandth of a gram* of the stuff is enough to destroy a billion pneumococci in two hours...