Word: germs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morris Moore and Roy Louis Kile, workers at Barnard Free Skin & Cancer Hospital in St. Louis, last week confidently announced that they had proved that a germ one six-thousandth of an inch long causes dandruff...
...germ, Pityrosporum ovalis, had long been suspected in dandruff. But no bacteriologist before Drs. Moore & Kile had been able to cultivate it for more than two or three generations. Trouble was that in the beginning most bacteriologists thought that Pityrosporum ovalis could be cultured like diphtheria or scarlet fever bacteria. Actually the germ of dandruff is a fungus like yeast and needs special soil for growth. Drs. Moore & Kile raised it on wort agar...
...this fellow he not only hated prunes he wanted to ABOLISH them to crush the very germ out and gee whiz we had a swell machine on the stage with colored lights and the pits came out the end like bullets out of a machine-gun against a copper gong. . . . Bill Glackens* always was the villain, and he comes on with a long mustache covered with furs looking rich as hell. Lucy Moore spurns him 'cause he wants the machine as a prune pitter to make pies but wait a minute you haven't heard anything there...
...medical director, summoned Bacteriologist William Hallock Park of New York City's Department of Health and Pathologist Leila Charlton Knox of St. Luke's Hospital to take the nine dead babies apart and search for the cause. Able Drs. Park and Knox could find no germ, no poison to account for the deaths...
Medicine suspects any theory that germs cause cancer. Likewise Medicine is stubbornly skeptical of any theory that germs can be advantageously used to treat cancer. Dr. Coley invented his anti-cancer toxin, Coley's Fluid, 40 years ago. It is a mixture of the toxins produced by the germ of erysipelas and a harmless germ called Bacillus prodigiosus which grows on food. Prodigiosus toxin fortifies the action of erysipelas toxin. Together they have cured an appreciable number of people dying of cancer, and together they have in numerous instances prevented the spread of cancer to remote parts...