Word: meningococci
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...with Prontylin. sped there for first-hand investigation, sped back to Johns Hopkins for experiments on patients suffering from streptococcic septicemia. hurried into print and onto lecture platforms with his reports. Dr. Long and Dr. Eleanor Bliss, who collaborated with him throughout on streptococci, next applied Prontylin to the meningococci which cause spinal menngitis. The meningococcus is a close relative of the gonococcus and Dr. Long, busy with the former, suggested that Dr. Colston, brother-in-law of Johns Hopkins' famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young, try the drug on his gonorrheal patients. Also quick to action. Dr. Colston summoned...
...Anton Weichselbaum (1845-1920) of Vienna isolated the specific germ, meningococcus, which attacks the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord and causes the disease. Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute perfected a serum which attacked the meningococci. That was in 1908. Mortality, which before 1908 had been...
...years ago Dr. Newell Simmons Ferry, whom Parke, Davis & Co. had hired from the University of Tennessee, began to hunt for a toxin which the meningococci might excrete. The epidemic of four years ago spurred him on, led him to develop an antitoxin in the blood of horses...
...soap is practically as good as carbolic acid, iodine, mercurochrome or new-fangled synthesized chemicals in killing infectious germs. Soap will not kill staphylococci or typhoid bacilli, which are unusually resistant to germicides. But soap will kill pneumococci, meningococci, streptococci, gonococci. diphtheria bacilli, influenza bacilli and Spirochaeta pallida very easily, very quickly. The hotter the water the better the killing properties of the soap. One kind of soap is virtually as efficacious as another...