Word: funguses
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...discovered several new and important facts, about certain types of fungi in their experiment. Nothing has been known until very recently about the sexual reproduction of fungi. Through their experiments these men have discovered that in the types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to a fungus plant, which produces both types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to fungus plant, which produces both types of reproductive organs. It is therefore hermaphroditic. But, the interesting point is that the fungus is both self-sterile and cross-fertile a condition which is common in flowering...
...Dodge is well known for his work on the fungus diseases of man, and has delivered the first course in this field while at Harvard. He has held positions of chairman and secretary of the Botanical Society of America, and has also served as national secretary for Gamma Alpha, a scientific honor fraternity. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi fraternities...
Often it is difficult to distinguish the pains of appendicitis from those of tuberculosis, pneumonia or pleurisy. Actinomycosis, a fungus infection which causes abscesses, may simulate appendicitis. A mistake in diagnosis may result from the presence of colic of the bile or of the kidneys, inflammation of the kidneys, stricture of the right ureter (through which the right kidney drains into the bladder). Diseases of women's sexual apparatus may act like appendicitis. Especially confusing in this respect is menstrual colic, from which many a flabby and nervous woman suffers. And infections of the intestines may spread...
Tinea is the technical name for ringworm. It is caused by varieties of a fungus called Trichophyton which gets into the skin. Various trichophyta affect the scalp or beard (causing patchy baldness), the torso, arms and legs (where the infection usually takes the form of a ring), the fingers, toes and the interdigital folds, the nails. The feet and hands are the most common sites of infection. Small blisters form and the skin erodes. W. F. Young Inc. of Springfield, Mass., makers of the proprietary germicide Absorbine Jr., taking a lesson from Listerine's Halitosis and Life Buoy Soap...
...increase of ringworm has been attributed to the promiscuity of the War. A more definite and traceable cause is the increasing use of artificial bathing pools and club showers. An infected foot leaves shreds of the fungus on the floor, which a healthy foot picks...