Word: streptococcus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poliomyelitis is transmitted by a virus. Polio-encephalitis appears to be caused by a streptococcus. Dr. Edward Carl Rose-now of the Mayo Foundation cultured streptococci from inflamed muscles, injected the culture into monkeys, reproduced the disease in them. In infantile paralysis, the affected muscles are withered and flaccid; in polio-encephalitis they are not-but they are so acutely inflamed and painful that spasms often occur and any movement is impossible. Furthermore, the seat of infantile paralysis is in the spinal cord, whereas the seat of polio-encephalitis is in the brain...
Death came, as it must to all men, to Briton Hadden in 1929. Ill for two months with a streptococcus infection, he died on February 27-six years almost to the hour after he and Henry Luce had sent to press the first issue of the first newsmagazine...
...Alphonse Raymond Dochez, reported in Science that, with the help of Dr. Charles Arthur Slanetz, he has prevented and cured distemper in dogs, cats and ferrets by injections of a new drug-sodium sulfanilyl sulfanilate. This drug, a sulfur derivative like sulfanilamide which cures certain bacterial diseases (due to streptococcus, etc.), appears, according to Drs. Dochez & Slanetz, to be the "first chemical agent to have such definite therapeutic action in an infection due to a filterable virus. The range of its activity in virus diseases remains to be explored...
...Republican Boss John Henry Roraback ruled Connecticut. Last week, aged 67, he killed himself. The suicide, with a pistol at his hunting lodge after a morning's target practice, was an act of strong will and not neurosis, and behind it lay a year's sickness (a streptococcus infection). Behind that was the story of a poor country boy who became a public utilities tycoon worth some $10,000,000. Behind that was the story of the electrification of Connecticut, a politico-financial chapter of U. S. history without peer as an illustration of what current historians call...
...family (see cut). Nor were they the only family members at the White House. Only members absent were Daughter Anna, now living in Seattle with her husband John Boettiger, newly chosen to run William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer; Son Franklin Jr., lying in a Boston hospital with streptococcus and sinus trouble; Franklin Jr.'s fiancee Ethel du Pont, and one grandchild. William Donner Roosevelt, son of Elliott's first wife. But all the rest of the family were present, including Son Elliott's five-month-old Elliott Jr. and Son James's captivating Kate...