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...means high. Kaolin, the white clay used in medicine and porcelain is Chinese for high hill, where the clay is found...
Cause of the disease is a virus so small that the most powerful microscopes cannot reveal it. It can pass through the very finest porcelain filter and still infect animals. In pathology this virus has special interest. It was the first ultramicroscopic, filterable virus discovered (1898), and gave a clue to many mysterious causes of disease. As to just what such viruses are, bacteriologists are not unanimous. They may be a kind of germ; they may be a kind of chemical...
...Ottawa. They started at Confederation Park. Along the snow-packed smoothness, like porcelain, of the Driveway to Dow's Lake, then along Carling Avenue to Richmond Road, left at Bell's Corners to Fallowfield and from Fallowfield home, over a back road to the Prescott Highway, and so to Dow's Lake again, and the finish line. Seven teams jogged along, started by the pistol of His Excellency, Viscount Willingdon. Not long ago the Canadian Government encouraged dog-team races because dog teams were the only freight haulers of the northern wilderness after October, an important factor in territorial expansion...
...Manhattan restaurant when a trio of gunmen entered. Mr. Garrett, small, confronted one of them, was shot three times (chest, shoulder, hip). At a detective, who queried him at the hospital about the possibly private motive for the shooting, Mr. Garrett is said to have shied a small porcelain cuspidor...
...possible connection with the 1918 world influenza epidemic was neglected for the theory, best formulated by Simon Flexner and the late great Hideyo Noguchi, that a virus so fine that it seeped through the finest unglazed porcelain was the cause. Dr. Falk went back to the Rosenau indication. When influenza struck Chicago severely last winter, he and his assistants took cultured smears from every throat they could reach. They slept on their desks to avoid losing time...