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...puffs and eclairs. Four thousand such pastries were sold one day to consumers in White Plains, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Ossining, Scarsdale, Tarrytown and a score other communities. Next day two thousand eaters of those cream puffs and éclairs were violently sick at their stomachs, poisoned by pus germs in the custard...
Pasteur thus by accident discovered the principle of preventive innovation against infectious disease. For the firs time someone could explain why pus from a calf's poxy sores prevented smallpox in human beings...
...droll little mite is the leucocyte, scooting here & there, sending out inquisitive pseudopodia (prolongations) as does the amoeba. Policeman of the blood stream, it scavenges waste, destroys certain bacteria, ignoring some and gobbling others with gusto. Pus is compounded of dead bacteria, dead leucocytes. It is well known that the leucocyte count is high in infancy and old age, decreasing in between. Massage, exercise, eating proteins increase it; fasting lowers it. In such infections as pneumonia and appendicitis the white cells rush to the defense of the infected tissue, are replaced by peculiar polymorphonuclear-neutrophile cells, called "band-form" from...
Diagnosticians as well as surgeons doubtless will be vexed with Dr. Hoffman's blame. Appendicitis is not always easy to diagnose. The surgeon usually gets the case at the last minute, when the appendix is about to burst or has already burst and scattered its pus. It is almost always peritonitis which causes death...
There was an epidemic of sinus trouble at Princeton last year. Almost all veteran water poloists have had their eardrums punctured at some time. Occasionally the eardrum fails to heal quickly and pus runs out of it. Mastoid may result. Suggested objectors: the Intercollegiate Swimming Association refused to alter its rule about the Old American Game because oldtime officials of the Association like to play it themselves in the New York Athletic Club, would hate to see it become outmoded...