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...brief morning last week a veteran U. S. tuberculosis specialist in Connecticut found himself almost as great a Press hero as Robert Koch had been in 1890. In 1890 Dr. Stephen John Maher, now white-bearded and 73, was a young general practitioner in New Haven. In 1900 he began specializing in tuberculosis. He has chairmanned Connecticut's Tuberculosis Commission since 1913, was on the inner council of the International Tuberculosis Conference in 1914, was a board member of the National Tuberculosis Association from...
...sanatorium in Shelton, Conn, one evening last week Dr. Maher told 1,800 attentive physicians what he had been doing to some tubercle bacilli. Culturing them in a sterile glycerin broth, he had added some sterile litmus milk, put the flask in a cupboard at room temperature. The deadly, rod-shaped bacilli slowly disappeared, transmuted into round-shaped bacteria called cocci and diplococci. These bacteria, he explained, produce an acid which destroys their progenitors...
...Maher did not claim that his cocci would cleanse a human body of its tubercle bacilli. He frankly admitted that, as yet, they had had no effect, either preventive or curative, on guinea pigs and rabbits. But he did think that he was at least on the right track, urged other researchers to join him in the search for "the greatest prize in the world," a specific cure for tuberculosis...
Loud was the applause of Dr. Maher's professional listeners at Shelton. Next morning the Press took up his story, twisted it out of technical focus, sent it rumbling across the land. Headline gobblers gathered that a cure for tuberculosis was, if not already achieved, at least imminent...
...unbeaten school teams in the East, the most devastating this year is probably Choate, coached by Jack Maher. who teaches his team Warner football with spinners, reverses, double and triple passes. Choate's quarterback and captain, a Jack Stonebraker of Hagerstown. Md., is so averse to all forms of effort that he sometimes walks across the goal line to make a touchdown if there are no tacklers near him. Choate's guards are Cubans: Miguel Mendoza y Kindelan and Eneas Antonio Freyre de Andrede. Right tackle is Oilman Joshua Cosden's son Joshua Jr. Last week Choate...