Word: germs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with both. Whereas primitive organisms are bundles of inherited reaction patterns and higher animals are resultants of heredity plus environment, Dr. Hrdlicka believes that man can promote or suppress the unfolding of his heredity by acts of volition. This may lead to actual physical or chemical changes in the germ-plasm, in the operation of the genes, carriers of heredity. "Such changes," said Dr. Hrdlicka, "if benign, may start differentiation, and under special circumstances, conceivably, evolution...
...albino for the same reason that occasional humans are: congenital lack of black pigment cells in the skin. For some reason albino frogs are far rarer than albino humans, lobsters, squirrels, peacocks, porcupines. About one out of every seven normal humans carries the albino inheritance in his germ-plasm as a recessive Mendelian character, and one person in every 25,000 is an albino. Albinism has been recorded in the great majority of animal and plant species. But Dr. Noble, contemplating Whitey, guessed that possibly not more than one like her could be found among millions of pond frogs. Naturalists...
...Anton Weichselbaum (1845-1920) of Vienna isolated the specific germ, meningococcus, which attacks the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord and causes the disease. Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute perfected a serum which attacked the meningococci. That was in 1908. Mortality, which before 1908 had been...
...past 27 years the Flexner type of serum has been standard treatment for cerebro-spinal meningitis. The doctor sticks a hollow needle into the patient's rigid spine. Out squirts a quantity of the germ-laden cerebro-spinal fluid, which has been imprisoned under pressure. When the squirt slows down the doctor injects the serum...
Since there is a dandruff germ, the disease must be catching, Drs. Moore & Kile imply. Someone may invent a vaccine against it. Meantime if any of the 165 manufacturers of hair tonics supposed to eradicate dandruff can prove that their stuff actually reaches and kills Pityrosporum ovalis, they should do a big business with the 25,000,000 U. S. men who suffer with dandruff...