Word: germ
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pneumonia is a disease of the lungs caused chiefly by the Diplococcus lanceolatus (twin, spherical, yet slightly elongated germ), which occurs widely in nature and is a common inhabitant of the mouth. It may also cause bronchopneumonia, meningitis, endocarditis, and septicemia. It gives out a very strong toxin, which the kidneys eliminate wth frequent damage to themselves. The germ induces in the lungs, in lobar pneumonia especially, a copious exudation of protective serum. Then come the polymorphonuclear (of many-shaped nuclei) leucocytes, which surround the invading germs and eat them (phagocytosis...
Lobular pneumonia may be contracted through the air passages or by invasion through the blood system of many different kinds of germ?Micrococcus lanceolatus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, the tubercle bacillus, occasionally even the glanders bacillus, actinomyces (rayed fungoid), oidiomyces (egg-shaped fungoid...
Concerning glandular rejuvenation and the theories upon which the famed Steinach operation is performed, Dr. R. M. Oslund of the University of Illinois offered evidence that, of the two types of cells produced by the reproductive glands, it is the germ cells, and not the interstitial cells, that generate the eye-brightening, step-quickening, youth-giving hormones...
...spinning world) was a major topic among the 2,000 members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, who met at Southampton, England, last week. So also was parthenogenesis- female moths, sawflies having propogated themselves for nine generations without male assistance. So also the cancer germ, recently discovered (TIME, July 27, MEDICINE) -it was about to be shown in cinema. The learned men and women treated de omni re scibili et quibusdam aliis, and then went home to wait the official publication of what had been said...
Assembled the physicians, psychologists, statisticians to consider the results of the test. Two results seem to be of possible importance. It appears that an increase in the white blood corpuscles (disease germ eaters) takes place after prolonged fatigue; whereas the current clinical supposition had it that the increase was to be noted only on the approach of enemy disease germs. This discovery, if it be such, may lead doctors to refer occasional early diagnoses of incipient disease to mere overwork. The second "discovery" made during the tests is that the sugar contents of the blood under fatigue remains constant...