Word: germs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issued, but his fellow members of Mexico's ruling National Revolutionary Party were already eagerly discussing a temporary President while Cardenas took a long rest somewhere out of Mexico. Boning up on Malta fever. Cardenas' enemies found that it is properly called undulant fever, and that its germ, the Micrococcus melitensis, can be got from drinking raw milk or even from patting diseased cattle. Chances against Cardenas dying of it were 50-to-1 but he might be sick with it for from four months to two years, and there was nothing much to be done about...
...Rose," playing this week at the Metropolitan, is a picture that is distinctly heartening to one who has begun to envision a complete relapse, if not collapse, of Hollywood production. Stark Young's book of the same name, contained the germ of a truly dramatic idea, and the sensitive adaptation by Sherwood Anderson and Laurence Stallings made the most of it. The scene is laid in Missouri during the Civil War, where we find Randolph Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized...
...time the true nature of the action of bulky food in the intestines has ever been demonstrated," claimed Drs. William Harwood Olmsted, 48, & Ray D. Williams of St. Louis, in telling why they fed three medical students such bulky foods as carrots, cabbage, peas, wheat bran, alfalfa leaf, corn germ meal, cotton seed meal, sugar beet pulp, cellulose flour and agar agar. How do such bulky foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk' of the human diet is not inert...
...Professor William McDougall does in the U. S. Lamarckism began to fade from the evolutionary picture after 1900, when Johann Gregor Mendel's work on the heredity of garden peas was rediscovered and the theatre of heredity was found to be in the genes and chromosomes of the germ cells. The classic experiment in disproof of Lamarckism is to snip off the tails of generation after generation of newborn mice. If this acquired lack of tail could be inherited, the mice should be born with smaller & smaller tails; but the baby mice persist indefinitely in appearing with fine long...
...invasion of the blood stream by the germ called Streptococcus haemolyticus may be one of the most dreadful diseases that can befall a human being. The germ, breeding in the blood, destroys the red cells. For lack of red blood cells, the victim of Streptococcus haemolyticus pines, fades. Baffled doctors try blood transfusion after blood transfusion. But almost invariably in fulminating cases the victim dies...