Word: diphtheria
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...Shawn, life changed forever in 1910. A pious, bookish student at the University of Denver, he was studying to be a Methodist minister when an attack of diphtheria left him paralyzed from the waist down. Ballet lessons were prescribed to aid his recovery. Private therapy was one thing. But dancing in public? When Shawn actually danced a waltzy pas de deux at an arts ball, faculty members were shocked and fraternity brothers sniggered. "Men," he was quietly informed, "don't dance." Shawn quit the university, and has viewed his art ever since as a logical "continuation of my sense...
Died. Gaston Ramon, 76, French microbiologist, who followed in Louis Pasteur's footsteps at the Pasteur Institute, in 1923 developed the first safe and effective diphtheria vaccine, later produced the first antitetanus vaccine; of a heart attack; in Paris...
Foiled so far in their efforts to find viruses that can be indicted as essential factors in human cancer, the researchers are looking for guidelines in viruses that parasitize lower forms of life. They have a suggestive clue in diphtheria bacilli. All the microbes of this species can cause infection in man. but only a few have the dread power to manufacture the poison that leads to the formation of a dead ly, strangling membrane across the victim's throat. And this power depends on the microbes' being infected, in their turn, with a tiny particle of nucleic...
...rejected her past-because it was filled with tragedy. Her mother died of diphtheria when she was eight. She had a deep love for her father Elliott, a jolly man, a big-game hunter and a younger brother of Teddy Roosevelt. He called her "Little Nell." But he died, with alcoholism as a contributing cause, when she was nine. Eleanor went to live with her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Valentine Hall, a stern disciplinarian. She was horribly unhappy until she went off to a French finishing school in England. There she came to recognize her own mental powers. "More and more...
...fever finally passed, and I thought he had recovered. One day I noticed he was crawling along the floor after his toys, I said, 'Why, Tom, whatever is the matter with your legs?' and called the doctor. His legs were paralyzed. Apparently, during Tom's diphtheria, he swallowed his tonsils.* They poisoned his system. It was two years before he could walk normally...