Word: hemolyticus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...source of the epidemic was traced to the principal milk dealer. Two of his men who handled the milk were found with sore throats from which Streptococcus hemolyticus was isolated. The guilty microbes were also found in the udder of a cow now excluded from the herd. All Lee milk is being rigidly pasteurized; all milk products made before or during the epidemic (butter, cheese, ice-cream) are prohibited...
Septic sore throat is caused by Streptococcus hemolyticus, a tiny germ closely resembling and related to the streptococci of scarlet fever. It is generally distributed in milk, but is a disease of man, not of cows. The milk may become infected by human hands, or, what seems more logical in view of the widespread character of the epidemics,* the udder of the cow becomes infected from human hands, releasing a stream of contagion at every milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout...
...cases treated was so small that it has been impossible to draw conclusions. In cases of infection due to streptococcus viridans, and in cases of pyelonephritis failures have been recorded. There have been marked successes, however, in the use of mercurochrome against pneumonia in children, against septicaemia, streptococcus hemolyticus and pyogenes, staphylococcus and against many other general and local infections. When the uses of mercurochrome are thoroughly determined, the result may be the "greatest conquest of disease in the history of medicine." - Dr. Hugh H. Young, Johns Hopkins University...
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