Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hopes that the deadly little beast may in the near future surrender unconditionally to the siege of preventive medicine. The most interesting med-cal news of the week was the, announcement by Dr. Georges Dreyer, professor of pathology at Oxford University, of a successful method of inoculation in tuberculous guinea-pigs and other animals...
...solution of formaldehyde. This eats away the fatty cells of the tubercle bacillus, which can then be digested by the body juices, and calls forth a plentiful supply of the antibodies when injected. They in turn attack and destroy the living germs of the disease. Dreyer inoculated three tuberculous guinea-pigs with his defatted dead bacilli. Another pig he did not treat. It died, but the three began to improve immediately, and all signs of tuberculosis soon disappeared...
Lieutenant Colonel Edward B. Vedder, of the Army Medical Corps, found that guinea pigs inoculated with tuberculosis bacilli and a concentration of mustard gas did not develop the disease although other " control" animals, without...
...Guinea the natives refer to all girls as " Mary's" - to go a-wooing is going " to catch a Mary," according to a professional woman traveller recently returned...
...when it was noticed that men working in the army laboratory where there was a trace of chlorine in the air seemed immune from the prevalent epidemic of those diseases. Lewisite has been used in direct experiment with good results upon persons inflicted with locomotor ataxia. The much abused guinea pig was cured of a severe attack of tuberculosis by inhaling a very small quantity of the burning mustard...