Word: streptococci
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Septic sore throat is caused by Streptococcus hemolyticus, a tiny germ closely resembling and related to the streptococci of scarlet fever. It is generally distributed in milk, but is a disease of man, not of cows. The milk may become infected by human hands, or, what seems more logical in view of the widespread character of the epidemics,* the udder of the cow becomes infected from human hands, releasing a stream of contagion at every milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout...
...body usually by some abrasion, sometimes by way of the tonsils. Then it spreads first through the lymphatic system, later through the blood to every part. It gives off a toxin (poison) which diffuses through the system even more quickly than the germ itself. The peculiar effect of the streptococci pyogenes is to cause fever, although in some cases, especially in wounds, it forms pus. If they get into the lungs by way of the blood they clog the bronchioles, the tiny air passages, and so give one form of bronchopneumonia. They frequently are secondary invaders in diphtheria, scarlet fever...
When Arrowsmith was the health officer of Nautilus, he closed Klopchuck's dairy-the best in town-because he found one employe with a streptococcus sore throat, and three cows with streptococci in their udders. There was no evidence of streptococcus sore throat among the patrons of the dairy. A thoroughly unjustified procedure I The proper procedure was to pasteurize the milk from Klopchuck's dairy and to remove this employe and perhaps also the three affected cows from the plant...
Hiccoughing epidemics are traceable to streptococci. These germs are found in the throats of affected patients. In a recent epidemic, several cases were studied in which the subjects hiccoughed from two to eight days.-Dr. Edward C. Rosenow, The Mayo Foundation...