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...John Arthur Franklin Pfeiffer of Baltimore last week declared that he had found a germ which he believes to be the cause of the common cold. He said he had seen it under his microscope, a spherical germ occurring in pairs and sometimes in rows. After he had isolated it he tested it out on healthy humans by spraying a culture into their noses. In 24 hours they would develop strong nasal colds. A vaccine made from the culture and injected under their skins "would break up the cold in short order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cold Germ? | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...causes and cures for the common cold physicians are skeptical. However, they believed Dr. Pfeiffer because of the wide range and thoroughness of his re-search in bacteriology, St. Vitus' Dance, pernicious anemia. . . . He, on the other hand, wanted to quiet all disbelief. He sent his research to Johns Hopkins University, where seven years ago he himself lectured on pathology, and which is now conducting a wide, deep, determined search into the cause of colds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cold Germ? | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...list of new assistant professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, together with their fields, is as follows: M. P. Billings '23, Geology; A. C. Comey '07, City Planning: F. H. Crawford, Physics: L. F. Fieser, Chemistry: R. H. Pfeiffer, Semitic Languages; and M. J. Williams, Landscape Architecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX MEN APPOINTED AS ASSISTANT PROFESSORS | 5/10/1930 | See Source »

Accordingly, our expedition is again in the field, this time under the direction of Dr. R. H. Pfeiffer, of the Semitic Department. We had hoped to work this year on a larger scale, but, owing to the necessity of purchasing additional equipment and paying more for salaries, the resources available for labor are somewhat less than those of a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D. G. LYON TELLS STORY OF EXCAVATIONS OF AMERICAN RESEARCHERS IN NUZI, IRAQ | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

Iraq, one of the earliest centers of civilization, is now attracting world-wide attention. Here are prospects bright enough to arouse the slowest imagination. Many institutions, American, English, French, German, are wide awake. Dr. Pfeiffer has just written from Bagdad: "There are to be seven archeological expeditions besides our own in Iraq this year, they say the greatest number of excavations ever known and the best equipped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D. G. LYON TELLS STORY OF EXCAVATIONS OF AMERICAN RESEARCHERS IN NUZI, IRAQ | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

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