Word: spirochaeta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paretic inmates were held firmly down on their cots. All had softening of the brain, all were paralytic. Into the thighs of those 72 dements, to check another investigator's work (Dr. Harry Caesar Solomon of Boston), Dr. Alex S. Hershfield of Chicago and five associates injected Spirochaeta morsusmuris...
Paresis, or general paralysis of the insane, is a hitherto incurable brain disease caused by the penetration of Spirochaeta pallida, the germ of syphilis, to the higher nerve centers, and has been the object of attack by many neurologists without marked success (TIME, April 28). Malaria germs have recently been used to combat it. Since 1919, 42 advanced cases were treated with tryparsamide, 21 of which are now discharged and restored to useful work, and four more have shown great improvement. Whether the cures are permanent remains to be seen...
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