Word: germs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bequeathed in 1919 to Mrs. Carnegie and the Miller family. Son-in-law Miller's donation to Johns Hopkins financed the bed & board of 13 chimpanzees. These apes contract whooping cough as easily as do children, are more easily managed. The whooping-cough problem is: Does a germ (the so-called Bordet-Gengoubacillus) alone cause the disease, or must that germ have some virus present in the throat and lungs before it causes whooping cough? Upon the answer depends the kind of vaccine or serum to prevent and cure the disease...
Before Dr. Hart rigged up his germ killing light barrage, one out of 25 patients on whose chests he operated used to die from infections. No infections developed after he began using the barrage. Without the barrage incisions required an average of 21 days to heal. With the barrage the average fell to nine days. Besides, "improvement in the entire convalescence was good. There was less postoperative pain...
...Bermuda's government aquarium a pair of Galapagos penguins, presented by Vincent Astor three years ago and lately fed wheat-germ oil, produced two eggs, which both hatched last week-first captive penguin hatch recorded...
...steep water" is thrown away. In the manufacture of starch, the corn is first "soaked" or "steeped" in a dilute sulphurous acid water for approximately 36 hours. This soaking removes the soluble mineral matter, gums, dextrins, sugars and proteins to make "steep water." The germ is next removed, and expressed for oil. Hull and fibre are then separated, leaving corn "gluten," and starch, which are separated by flotation. The corn "gluten" which contains approximately 30% unremoved starch, is combined with the hull, fibre and steep water to make a product - corn gluten feed, which is sold to the dairy industry...
Next day Dr. Brooks died. Immediate cause was not the liver abscess but a gas gangrene germ of which Dr. Brooks was co-discoverer some 40 years ago-the Welch bacillus, named for the late famed William Henry Welch...