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...TIME, Jan. 4). He gives instances when even careful pasteurization (about 144° F. for 30 minutes) did not kill all harmful bacteria. Among those left alive: streptococci involved in some poliomyelitis epidemics, spore-forming organisms (chiefly intestinal bacteria of cattle, capable of causing diarrhea in infants), acidophilus and pneumococci-like organisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Heretics | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...detergents in propylene glycol, which is a sort of thin glycerine. Results were much better. Then the researchers found that the propylene glycol itself was a potent germicide. One part of glycol in 2,000,000 parts of air would-within a few seconds-kill concentrations of air-suspended pneumococci, streptococci and other bacteria numbering millions to the cubic foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Air Germicide | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...sinuses are useful for: 1) warming up cold air before it reaches the lungs; 2) engulfing bacteria in germ-repelling mucus; 3) acting as a sounding board for the voice. Infections of the sinus mem branes are caused by a number of bacteria, including the staphylococci, streptococci, pneumococci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sinus Trouble | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Gramicidin. Three years ago, Dr. Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute discovered a germ-killer brewed by bacteria that live in the soil (TIME, April 15, 1940). A product of chemical warfare between germs, the brew, called gramicidin, overcomes certain streptococci, staphylococci, pneumococci. In tests on animals and humans it is from 1,000 to 100,000 times as strong as sulfanilamide in healing local infections. One-millionth of a teaspoonful, as much as a drop of mist, is enough to protect a mouse from 10,000 fatal doses of pneumococci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Germs, Wounds, Vitamins | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs. It can be caused by any one of 33 types of pneumococci, by many other bacteria, or by viruses. Last fortnight, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Paul Roberts Cannon of the University of Chicago warned physicians of another, "manmade" form of the disease: oil pneumonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Oil Pneumonia | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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