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...Eugenics, which seeks to improve the race negatively by the elimination of 'defective germ plasm and the selection of superior parents, will be supplanted by the positive or "euthenic" element of building up and strengthening good traits and dispositions in the individual. Thus a race of supermen will develop naturally from normal parents...
...have been working on pneumonia remedies, mostly of a serological nature. Dr. Tomarkin's cure merits favorable consideration, at least, from the fact that it is vouched for by Professor Ettore Marchiafava, one of the most respected of Italian medical scientists, famous for his work on plasmodium, the germ of malaria...
Common colds are infectious and are probably due to an ultramicroscopic germ. These are the findings of Dr. Peter K. Olitsky and Dr. J. E. McCartney, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, after four years of experiments on human volunteers. Filtered washings from the noses of cold sufferers were injected into healthy persons, who promptly developed colds, which were in turn transmissable. The causative germ could not be seen, although cultures were grown from the secretions of 40 patients. Either the germ is so small that it cannot be seen through the most powerful magnification (about 1,500 times...
...Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922), French military surgeon, discoverer of Plasmodium vivax, germ of tertian malaria...
...ovum have activating " microcellules." These seek their complement in the other sex cell, but if the male micro-cellules preponderate in number over the female the result will be a male embryo, and vice versa. But Alich also believes that various other factors affect this potential energy of the germ cell, including potency, fatigue, old age, and has evidence for this from horses, sheep and roosters. Dr. James W. Mavor, of Union College, has discovered that X-rays can eliminate the X-chromosome in the eggs of the fruit fly Drosiphila, upsetting the balance between the sexes of the offspring...