Word: germs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is a beginning for every disease. The beginning is not when the germ enters the body, but rather when something happens to lower the resistance of the body, so that the germs may get a foot hold...
Bubonic plague is called the Black Death because its victims become a spotted dusky red. The disease compares with cholera as an Asiatic peril. It is transmitted by a germ which is carried by a flea from rats to man. The death rate is 80%. An infection of the blood stream, the disease runs its fatal course in a week or less, with high fever and great pain. Persons may be inoculated against bubonic plague. The use of serum in the first few hours of the disease reduces the mortality rate...
...again when a great war scare stench was uncorked by Henry Wickham Steed, onetime editor of the London Times. He claimed to have obtained from Berlin official documents showing that for years successive German Governments have had secret agents in London and Paris preparing surveys for bomb, gas and germ raids. According to Mr. Steed, whose acumen and veracity stand high among his countrymen, harmless germ cultures have lately been released in London and Paris subways and the spread of the germs recorded by German agents. Last week the Nazi press bureau retorted: "There are other reasons for the stench...
Experiments showed Dr. Kracke that the pain-killers which he suspected inhibit the production of germ-killing white blood cells in the marrow. A sore throat or a cut finger uses up white cells. No others come from the marrow to replace them. Eventually the body has too few white cells available to fight off the invasion of germs. Along comes a cold, and the granulopenic (poor in white cells) person dies with shocking suddenness...
Leader of the National Youth Movement is Joseph C. Fennelly, 29, native of Kansas City, educated at the University of Virginia, vice president of a paint company. Tall, slender, blond, an expert golfer, he is married, has one son. Germ of the movement was born five years ago when five young businessmen who knew nothing of government or politics sat around a fireside in Fennelly's home discussing the local situation. The young men of Cincinnati had cleaned up their city. Why could the young men of Kansas City not do the same? Then & there they decided...