Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ramshackle bacteriological laboratory of the rich University of Chicago, where often "rats destroy in a night the fruits of six months' work,"* Dr. Isidore Sydney Falk has discovered, the university announced last week, the germ which causes influenza. It is the polymorphous streptococcus. When the news reached London, where investigators have been at the same problem, the London Times called Dr. Falk from bed to answer its transAtlantic telephone questions. It was 11 a. m. in London. 5 a. m. in Chicago. It was a half-hour later when Dr. Falk returned...
...possible connection with the 1918 world influenza epidemic was neglected for the theory, best formulated by Simon Flexner and the late great Hideyo Noguchi, that a virus so fine that it seeped through the finest unglazed porcelain was the cause. Dr. Falk went back to the Rosenau indication. When influenza struck Chicago severely last winter, he and his assistants took cultured smears from every throat they could reach. They slept on their desks to avoid losing time...
...doctor's degree, they secured the most useful cultures. It was of the polymorphous streptococcus. It "looks like a microscopic chain of unmatched beads which a child has strung together." When this germ collects into minute, smooth colonies in the blood, it causes a cold or mild influenza. When the colonies become rough, the influenza grows severe, virulent. With the specific cause of influenza thus recognized, an intelligent way of treatment and a vaccine for prevention lies in purview...
...wanted them, so he sold a trunk full of his own clothes and took the painter to Provence for his health. He improved slightly but once back in Paris he drank again, became so undermined that when an unusual cold wave struck in December 1920 he died of influenza with the words "Cara, cara, Italia!'' (Dear, dear Italy) on his lips. A few days later his mistress threw herself from a window. Friends of the painter wired his brother in Italy that he had died a pauper. The reply was: "Bury him as prince." Modigliani was carried...
...Deeply grieved was President Hoover last week to hear physicians despair of saving the life of Senator Theodore Elijah Burton of Ohio, the President's good friend and campaign supporter, ill for weeks following an attack of influenza (TIME, Oct. 14). Back from Ohio, President Hoover again visited the dying scholar, statesman, peace-lover, whose interest in waterways was recognized by Rooseveltian appointment to chairmanship of the Inland Waterways Commission 22 years ago. Mr. Burton died full of years (77) and honor...