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...with a faint smile, a withdrawn expression and eyes that a man could drown in. In 1934 Paul Guillaume died under curious circumstances. At first it was reported that he had been lost at sea on a fishing expedition, then that he had wasted away of a disease resembling paratyphoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: LAffaire Lacaze | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Knorke was 17 months old and a sick gorilla when Nurse Rosemarie Hohler first saw him. Bought by the West Berlin Zoo to replace Pongo, its prewar gorilla bayoneted to death by Russian soldiers, Knorke had been flown in from the French Cameroons, and had promptly fallen sick of paratyphoid fever. Zoo officials sent Knorke to the City Hospital, put the sad little ape in quarantine in a sealed-off room, and explained that paratyphoid, though usually only a mild human disorder, can be fatal to gorillas. Looking compassionately at Knorke, 24-year-old Rosemarie volunteered to go into quarantine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Gorilla & the Nurse | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

Hopefully they go on: "We may envisage the use of a standard packet of antigens . . . for the great bulk of the consumers. This would [represent] the various strains of the Group A streptococci, and the staphylococci, pneumococci, tubercle bacilli, typhoid, paratyphoid and diphtheria organisms, and eventually the virus antigens of poliomyelitis, rubella, measles and other diseases. Other packets of disease antigens for special regions, seasons or fractions of the population might be demanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Udder Antibodies | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...complete, because there has not been enough of the stuff to work with. But in mice and on embryos from chicken eggs it worked against Staphylococcus aureus (the "golden bug" which causes boils and abscesses) and against Salmonella schottmülleri (which causes a kind of paratyphoid fever). One bug is affected by streptomycin, the other resists it; neomycin hits both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Man of the Soil | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Ellis, vice-president of the International Student Union, and former treasurer of the Student Council, went to Europe last January. While in Rome in July he contracted paratyphoid which left him in a greatly weakened condition, friends said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Cross Aids Student Leader Sick at Prague | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

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