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Professor Leon Charles Albert Calmette, 67, with Veterinary C. Guerin developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, commonly called BCG vaccine. It is prepared from living tuberculosis germs taken from diseased cows. These germs are cultured for many germ generations until they become non-virulent. The discoverers believe, and famed Dr. Park of Manhattan agrees with them, that they have proved that BCG vaccine, if fed to infants the first ten days of life, immunizes them against tuberculosis. Many bacteriologists denounce BCG. They say that its live germs cause rather than prevent tuberculosis (TIME...
Trachoma. One more research step and Medicine will be certain that four years ago the late great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi discovered the actual germ of trachoma, contagious blinding eye disease. Drs. William Chris Fimioff and Phillips Thygeson of Denver reported to the Convention that the organism caused trachoma in monkeys. Remains to test it on a human. The test human may be Woo Dak-San, Silver City, N. Mex., Chinese sentenced to be executed for murder. To him last week was suggested a choice and to New Mexico's Governor R. C. Dillon was presented a plea-that...
Fifteen thousand dollars dropped from the treasury of the Carnegie Corporation last week as the germ of a series of Carnegie Summer Art Centers, traveling lectureships, scholarships at universities throughout the country. Two-thirds of the germ landed at Harvard where instructors and graduate students from 20 U. S. colleges will attend lectures in the new Fogg Art Museum given by bushy-mustached George Harold Edgell, dean of the Harvard School of Architecture and dapper Paul Joseph Sachs, associate director of the Fogg Museum, brother of Banker Walter Edward (Goldman) Sachs...
...John Arthur Franklin Pfeiffer of Baltimore last week declared that he had found a germ which he believes to be the cause of the common cold. He said he had seen it under his microscope, a spherical germ occurring in pairs and sometimes in rows. After he had isolated it he tested it out on healthy humans by spraying a culture into their noses. In 24 hours they would develop strong nasal colds. A vaccine made from the culture and injected under their skins "would break up the cold in short order...
...porcelain filter and still infect animals. In pathology this virus has special interest. It was the first ultramicroscopic, filterable virus discovered (1898), and gave a clue to many mysterious causes of disease. As to just what such viruses are, bacteriologists are not unanimous. They may be a kind of germ; they may be a kind of chemical...