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...killed 10,000,000 over the world. Although San Francisco is one of the five known endemic foci of bubonic plague,* very seldom does a case now appear in the U. S. Rats, ground squirrels (the chief cause in California) and other rodents carry the germ, Bacillus pestis. Fleas bite the rats, then carry the bacilli to man's habitations, his clothes, his body. To prevent the disease, rodents must be exterminated and their fleas kept from humans through personal hygiene. Drs. Long and Eskey cleaned Guayaquil by drastically cleaning the city of vermin and teaching the inhabitants personal...
...recognition that the economic difficulty is a mathematical, not a moral difficulty, and that many of the popular panaceas advanced, like Socialism and Communism, are as futile as the efforts of a society for the prevention of spots in smallpox which refused to take any cognizance of the smallpox germ...
Surpassing lean meat in value is yeast, which was distributed by the Red Cross during the Mississippi flood of 1927 to prevent pellagra. Below lean meat come milk, eggs, wheat germ, tomato juice. Vegetables have little G value, fats and oils none...
...Royal Daimler with trusty Humphreys at the wheel to inspect the new Prince of Wales's wing in Alexandra Military Hospital at Westminster. While there she made avery special request. Soon the hospital's best, most splendiferous and highest-powered microscope was trained on a fresh and potent germ culture. Placing her eye as directed, the Queen squinted into a microscopic realm where savagery holds lawless sway, stood face to face with the hungry microbes of MALARIA...
Supplemented Dr. William Hallock Park, Manhattan's great bacteriologist: "... A very thoughtful piece of work, whether or not he has found the influenza germ...