Word: diphtheria
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...into the Fire. During his laboratory years, Dr. Welch did important, highly technical work on Bright's disease (of the kidneys), thrombosis (formation of blood clots), arterial disease. He also performed some of the pioneer experiments in the cause of diphtheria. Perhaps his most significant contribution was his discovery of a germ which became his namesake, the Bacillus welchii, producer of gas gangrene. This was his last piece of laboratory research. In the early 1900s he gradually moved into the spotlight, began "charming and beguiling" millionaires out of money for public health, lighting firecrackers under stodgy old professors, hammering...
Only four doctors have been considered eminent enough to win this privilege: Dr. Bela Schick, inventor of the Schick test for diphtheria immunity (not to be confused with Jacob Schick, inventor of the Schick razor); Nobelman George Hoyt Whipple, co-discoverer of the liver treatment for anemia; Dr. Manfred Sakel, originator of the insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; Dr. Benjamin Philp Watson, head of Columbia's Sloane Hospital for Women...
...Compulsory vaccination* has wiped out smallpox in Chile. Diphtheria has likewise been practically eliminated. Insanity is not common. Greatest health problem in Chile is a high infant-mortality rate. According to Dr. Cruz Coke, the trouble is not the medical care in hospitals but the conditions in the home, because of low standards of living...
...William Wilson Jameson, Chief Medical Officer of the British Ministry of Health, told Britons last week that four months of Blitzkrieg conditions had resulted only in an "infinitesimal" increase in disease. Scarlet fever and diphtheria had actually decreased and the number of pneumonia cases had grown but a trifle. The notable disease increase was in cerebrospinal meningitis, with 12,500 cases in 1940 as against...
...medical journals, are on display in Strange Malady, a breezily written book published last week by Dr. Warren Taylor Vaughan of Richmond, Va. (Doubleday; $3). Son of the late Dr. Victor Clarence Vaughan, who was not only a pioneer allergist but also the man who brought the first diphtheria antitoxin from Europe to the U. S., Dr. Warren Vaughan tells in his book about all that a layman needs or wants to know about allergy-how "sensitization" takes place, its bodily results, its myriad agents, its treatment. From kapok to camel's hair to cockroach powder to cosmetics...