Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as rats make excellent laboratory animals for nutrition research, mice for cancer and monkeys for poliomyelitis, so ferrets are invaluable to influenza investigators. Ferret reactions were the basis of Harvard's Dr. William Firth Wells's demonstration last month that ultraviolet radiation kills the unknown germ or virus which causes that disease (TIME, Aug. 3). But many doctors think it probable that some infectious agencies change their form in different environments. The question remained: While human influenza could be communicated to ferrets, could ferret influenza be communicated...
...Public Health, has made oyster eggs germinate artificially and by means of artificial sunlight made germs vanish from thin air. Last week after working persistently against smaller & smaller forms of life, Biologist Wells was able to announce that by means of ultraviolet light he destroys the minuscule cause of influenza as it floats...
...lethal effect of ultraviolet light on whatever causes influenza proved exceedingly difficult to demonstrate. Bacteriologists do not know whether an ultramicroscopic germ causes that disease or whether an ultramicroscopic virus (which may be a living organism or an active chemical entity) is involved. Best means of cultivating that invisible something is in the body of a live ferret. Working with his wife, Dr. Mildred Washington Weeks Wells, and his laboratory associate, Dr. Harold W. Brown, Mr. Wells exposed ferrets to air which had been contaminated by influenza. If the germ-laden air had been exposed to ultraviolet light...
...Secretary of War George Henry Dern, of complications from his attack of influenza last April, in a Washington hospital; Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., of influenza, in Rawlins, Wyo.; James Ramsay MacDonald, of an infection, in London; John Jacob Raskob, of neuritis, in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, of a gastric ailment, in Quebec...
Died. Wilfred Washington Fry, 61, onetime Y.M.C.A. executive, head of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., potent Philadelphia advertising agency; of complications following influenza; in Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College Hospital which last year elected him its president. A Baptist and ardent Dry, he accepted no post-Repeal liquor accounts, dropped Canada Dry when that firm began to sell gin, whiskey, beer (TIME, Sept...