Word: staphylococci
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belief, he said, not contaminated water but plain swimming, even in pure pools, is responsible for the boils, middle ear inflammations, mastoid infections and sinusitis that afflict thousands of swimmers every summer. Water "macerates" delicate skin, washes away protective mucous in the nose, opens up "avenues of infection" for staphylococci and other virulent bacteria. To prevent serious infections, Dr. Taylor offered the following aquatic tips for terrestrials...
...those who took the position that phage was not alive was Albert Paul Krueger, who began studying the mysterious killer as a medical student at Stanford. For two years he continued his research at the Rockefeller Institute, went on to the University of California. He discovered a phage of staphylococci (pus germs), showed that its inactivation by heat followed the same course as that of a protein. Poisons such as potassium cyanide and bichloride of mercury inactivated but did not kill it-in other words, like protein, it regained activity after the poison was removed. Finally Rockefeller Institute...
...pharmacologists can ascertain, Prontosil does not attack the streptococci and staphylococci directly in the way that salvarsan ("606") inactivates the spirochete of syphilis. In some undeciphered manner Prontosil* stimulates the production of white blood corpuscles, guardians and scavengers of the blood stream, retards the growth of cocci...
Gonococci most frequently infect Fallopian tubes and ovaries; streptococci and staphylococci, the uterus. To cure such infections in women, doctors used to be obliged to resort to surgery. Dr. Virgil Sheetz Counsellor of the Mayo Clinic, recently told his colleagues that he cured 73% of such inflammatory cases with the Elliott treatment applied an hour a day for two to three weeks. Dr. Simpson in his last week's account reported 90% cures without surgery...
...soap is practically as good as carbolic acid, iodine, mercurochrome or new-fangled synthesized chemicals in killing infectious germs. Soap will not kill staphylococci or typhoid bacilli, which are unusually resistant to germicides. But soap will kill pneumococci, meningococci, streptococci, gonococci. diphtheria bacilli, influenza bacilli and Spirochaeta pallida very easily, very quickly. The hotter the water the better the killing properties of the soap. One kind of soap is virtually as efficacious as another...