Word: pasteurize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drawbacks. A second strong plea for the vaccine is.made in BCG Vaccination Against Tuberculosis (Little, Brown; $7.50) by the University of Illinois' Dr. Sol Rosenthal. With the help of the Pasteur Institute's famed bacteriologist Dr. Camille Guérin, 84, TB Fighter Rosenthal records the disappointments attending early efforts to perfect a TB vaccine, then the surprising success of France's late Dr. Albert Calmette, with Guérin collaborating, in attenuating a strain of tubercle bacilli taken from human patients by growing them in cattle. The trouble was that the vaccine, now universally known...
Died. Frederick George Novy, M.D., 92, famed bacteriologist and faculty member of the University of Michigan from 1886 to 1935, dean of the medical school 1930-35, who studied in Europe under Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, in 1888 helped establish the first U.S. bacteriological laboratory; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...tour, impudent, versatile Sacha roughed his way through eleven French schools ("I knew all the dates in French history, but, unhappily, not what happened on them"), turned out his first hit comedy at 19, went on to write more than 130 plays, ranging from semiserious portrayals of great men (Pasteur, Mozart) to whipped-cream farces (L'Illusionniste), in the '30s added films (The Story of a Cheat). In his acting, he epitomized the wry, shoulder-shrugging French bon vivant, but bitterly offended countrymen by continuing to act and write under the Nazi occupation ("I didn't want...
Devout Christians had been sipping sacramental wine for centuries when Dr. Thomas Bramwell Welch stepped in as Communion steward of the Vineland (N.J.) Methodist Church in 1869. A stern prohibitionist, Dentist Welch determined forthwith to banish Bacchus from the altar. After reading up on Pasteur and experimenting with figs, raisins and blackberries, Dr. Welch gladdened the hearts of fellow communicants on Sunday by serving sterilized, unfermented grape juice. It tasted almost like wine...
...famed Pasteur Institute of Paris put on sale 6,000 series (three shots each) of a modified Salk anti-polio vaccine, found the situation in France diametrically opposite to that in the U.S.: supply far exceeds demand. One reason is that polio is much less common in France; so is the wherewithal to buy the vaccine, which costs $7.15 for the three shots...