Word: streptococcus
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Died. Elizabeth Idabelle Firestone Graham, 27, wife of Defense Commission Aide Ray Austin Graham Jr., only daughter of the late Tire Tycoon Harvey Firestone; of a streptococcus infection; in Washington...
...wonder drug, sulfanilamide, has cured apparently hopeless streptococcus infections, but it has also caused many a headache, and worse-nausea, dizziness, fever, even mild, temporary forms of insanity. For some patients, sulfanilamide is plain poison...
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...