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Erysipelas. This disease, popularly called the Rose or St. Anthony's* Fire, is a highly contagious infection caused by the streptococcus pyogenes. This germ resembles a minute seed and grows in long chains, like a string of beads. It gains entrance to the human body usually by some abrasion, sometimes by way of the tonsils. Then it spreads first through the lymphatic system, later through the blood to every part. It gives off a toxin (poison) which diffuses through the system even more quickly than the germ itself. The peculiar effect of the streptococci pyogenes is to cause fever, although...
...when Dr. Birkhaug was working at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore,** a friend suffering from erysipelas came to him. The doctor had been working on scarlet fever. But he decided to concentrate on erysipelas. He knew, as had long been known, that streptococcus pyogenes was the cause, that of this germ there are several strains, of which one is streptococcus erysipelatis. The problem was to isolate this particular strain and to develop from it a serum. He succeeded...
...agriculturists and laborers. Furthermore the recent housing bill sponsored by Governor Smith is not far different fom that type of government control advocated by the farm bloc. In the common opposition of both the Eastern and Western progressives to the great corporate interests now in power, there is the germ of a major liberal party. And since a political realignment, based on definite economic doctrines, instead of inherent prejudices, would be of inestimable benefit to American politics, it is to be hoped that the obsolete designations, which now separate similar schools of thought, will eventually be overcome...
...other periodically and must they develop a civilization that is doomed to be trampled upon by armies and crushed and saturated with blood? No. . . . Locarno has given people confidence. It makes it possible for mothers to gaze on their sons without feeling terror for the future. . . . Locarno is a germ that must be carefully tended, and not crushed by the heavy foot before it has time to grow. Such a crime must not be committed by the French foot...
...fibrous rings about his small toes were to continue in growth, as they surely would without surgical intervention, they would eat around through the muscles, tendons, nerves, bones and finally the atrophying blood vessels. Then those toes would fall off, painlessly. The disease is caused by no known germ or organism, yet probably by some jungle parasite. Slaves just imported into the U. S. used to have it once in a while. After their little toes decayed and dropped off, other toes were liable to become infected. One case is on medical record where such piecemeal, painless degeneration took place...