Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanley and fellow sufferers through the world, few doctors could do more than prescribe with Dean Irving Samuel Cutter of Northwestern University Medical School: "Don't try to eat. Starve yourself for a few days. Don't eat even soft-boiled eggs. Tea, toast and fruit juices are all right but that's about all. Drink lots of water. Don't take strong laxatives. The disease is not in the intestinal tract but in the respiratory system. Don't take liquor, of course, for it merely puts an extra load on the excretory organs...
Last year Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute weakened this theory by crystallizing the virus which causes mosaic disease in tobacco and tomato plants. So far as scientists know, living matter never crystallizes. Thus...
...Stanley's work seemed to show that viruses might be as inanimate as the white of an egg (TIME, March 23). Last week Dr. Stanley, 32, established his thesis, destroyed the theory of living viruses, won the A.A.A.S.'s relatively big prize...
...Stanley showed. The biggest known, they weigh 17 million times as much as a hydrogen atom, nearly one million times as much as a molecule of water. Left by themselves they are inert. But in contact with living plant or animal material they multiply incessantly. Under some conditions the virus protein molecule changes its inner structure all by itself. It then causes a totally different disease...
...also explain inheritance of germ cells through the genes, units supposed also to be giant molecules. "In any case," said Dr. Stanley last week, "it now appears possible to list protein molecules along with living organisms such as bacteria, fungi and protozoa as infectious, disease-producing agents...