Word: pallidae
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...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...
Paresis, or general paralysis of the insane, is a hitherto incurable brain disease caused by the penetration of Spirochaeta pallida, the germ of syphilis, to the higher nerve centers, and has been the object of attack by many neurologists without marked success (TIME, April 28). Malaria germs have recently been used to combat it. Since 1919, 42 advanced cases were treated with tryparsamide, 21 of which are now discharged and restored to useful work, and four more have shown great improvement. Whether the cures are permanent remains to be seen...
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