Word: streptococcus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. J. Sterling Getchell, 41, founder and head of J. Sterling Getchell, Inc., big Manhattan advertising firm which handles such accounts as Plymouth and Socony-Vacuum; of a streptococcus infection; in Manhattan...
...Streptococcus. Mastitis, or inflammation of the udders, disables more cattle than any other disease, costs U. S. farmers millions of dollars every year. Last week Dr. Charles Conger Palmer of the University of Delaware said that he had found a new kind of streptococcus, never described before, in the udders of heifers with mastitis. Sometimes it flourishes alone, at other times it grows along with Staphylococcus aureus, the germ which causes one form of mastitis in cows, boils and pimples in man. Dr. Palmer and his associates are now trying to discover whether it also infects human beings...
Then Dubos found in soil samples a spore-bearing bacillus which actually kills five kinds of pneumococcus; staphylococcus (the pus germ), streptococcus, the diphtheria bacillus. The killing agent is a non-protein substance which Dr. Dubos has isolated in crystalline form. One hundred-thousandth of a gram* of the stuff is enough to destroy a billion pneumococci in two hours...
...persons in the U. S. are victims of rheumatoid arthritis. What causes arthritis doctors do not know. Some think it a circulatory disturbance; a few call it an allergy; others believe it a sign of emotional conflict. The most widely held theory considers arthritis the result of a streptococcus infection. Since they have not understood its cause, doctors have blindly tried all kinds of treatment, ranging from tooth pulling (to remove a focus of infection), to injections of bee venom (to combat the allergy). But cures are few and far between...
Working on the assumption that the chief cause of arthritis is a streptococcus infection, British and German doctors 15 years ago tried injections of gold salts to combat the germs. Although 10% of 750 British patients were "cured," and 57% showed "marked improvement," American physicians hesitated to experiment with the salts. Reason: an overdose of gold may produce skin rashes, a sore mouth and tongue, disorders of the kidneys and blood. But over a year ago. Dr. Dawson decided to try chrysotherapy (from the Greek chrysos, meaning gold...