Word: germs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carpentersville, Gary, Palatine, Arlington Heights) with 15,000 people, each with a local plant and electric service at night. These plants were bought and junked, the transmission systems interconnected and power sent efficiently from one central station. Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois is now regarded as the engineering germ of the great superpower systems. It was the forerunner of Mr. Insull's great Middle West Utilities System, now serving 5,321 communities...
...slaved for him, but it was a long time since he had noticed her. He was wrapped up in his Idea: the prevention of all disease by the perfection of the human body. Strong in his enthusiastic faith, he subjected his husky little daughter to every possible draught and germ. "She grew to be large and strong. Occasionally she suffered from a slight concussion of the brain, but she never caught a cold in the head...
...existence of various types of disease bacteria. He called this something a phage. Last week after innumerable experiments whither he was beguiled from Egyptian researches, he was prepared to restate his original, but widely questioned belief that a phage was not a chemical but a living organism. A disease germ attacked by a phage goes mad. Its heredity changes; it usually becomes harmless. Unfortunately, some phaged germs develop into something even more virulent...
...Frank Fremont-Smith, assistant professor of Neuropathology at the Medical School, told members of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases at its annual meeting in New York during the vacation that he had confirmed the belief that the meningitis germ, rather than the white cells in the spinal fluid, consumed sugar present in the fluid. He said that when meningitis is present, there follows a decrease in the sugar content, and when the patient is recovering there is a corresponding, increase...
...noted further that the symptoms of poliomyelitis and meningitis were much the same, but that a normal sugar content in infantile paralysis and a deficiency in sugar in meningitis led to the finding that only the germ of the latter disease consumed the sugar...