Word: streptococcus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invasion of the blood stream by the germ called Streptococcus haemolyticus may be one of the most dreadful diseases that can befall a human being. The germ, breeding in the blood, destroys the red cells. For lack of red blood cells, the victim of Streptococcus haemolyticus pines, fades. Baffled doctors try blood transfusion after blood transfusion. But almost invariably in fulminating cases the victim dies...
Last week Drs. William Thalhimer & Sidney Older Levinson of Chicago recommended a cure for this disease. In the American Medical Association Journal they pointed out that Streptococcus haemolyticus belongs to the family of germs which cause scarlet fever and erysipelas...
...rest of their lives they must avoid exertion. The other disease is rheumatoid arthritis (swelling and pain in the joints, particularly in the knees, elbows, wrists). That streptococci most probably cause rheumatic fever has long been suspected. Dr. Charles William Wainwright of Baltimore offered evidence that the streptococcus also is responsible for rheumatism in the joints. In any case children who eat spinach diligently will probably escape the fever and heart disease, grown-ups who do likewise will probably escape the rheumatism. This seems so whether 1) Vitamin C enables the body to kill streptococci after they get into...
Died. Sir Albert Edward Gooderham, 73, Canadian distiller-philanthropist (Gooderham & Worts); of a streptococcus infection; in Toronto. During the War his firm produced for the British Government 75% of all the acetone (used in cordite) made in the Empire...
...calm any frantic men who may have been exposed, Dr. Means belittled the seriousness of the Teutonic measle, comparing its effects to those of the common cold, and added that in many cases it was not even as bad as the villainous streptococcus...