Word: diptheria
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Members of the hospital have already had active experience in combating epidemics in the United States and have also assisted in crushing outbreaks of scarlet fever, diptheria and meningitis, which arose last winter at Halifax, Nova Scotia...
When the reactionary bigwigs of a large German hospital fire him for being too independent, young Dr. Ehrlich enters a long life of prodigious work--during which he finds the method for recognizing tuberculosis germs, discovers a diptheria serum, and gives the world a cure for its devasting "social disease." At a very swank dinner party one dear old lady asks Dr. Ehrlich what is working on now. "Syphilis," he replies, and thirty months drop open in shocked amazement...
...public lecture at the School yesterday. "Within the past thirty years," he continued, "the percentage of deaths from cancer has been steadily mounting not only in this country, but all over the world. While this has been taking place the mortality rate of other diseases, like tuberculosis and diptheria, has been steadily decreasing...
...Diptheria. Instead of operating, as Dr. Evans suggests, Dr. Arrowsmith might also have used an intubation tube and sucked out the membrane. What he did is part of his character development...
Prof. Emil yon Behring, of the Univ. of Halle-Diptheria serum, reducing that mortality rate...