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Zeiss microscope makers of Jena showed a cinema reel of unicellular life-isolated bacterium pneumococcus (pneumonia), bacterium streptococcus (pus), saccharomyces (yeast). It is possible to infect and kill an animal with a single germ. Such a germ proliferates to form a colony...
Erysipelas. This disease, popularly called the Rose or St. Anthony's* Fire, is a highly contagious infection caused by the streptococcus pyogenes. This germ resembles a minute seed and grows in long chains, like a string of beads. It gains entrance to the human 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...
Antitoxin. Two years ago when Dr. Birkhaug was working at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore,** a friend suffering from erysipelas came to him. The doctor had been working on scarlet fever. But he decided to concentrate on erysipelas. He knew, as had long been known, that streptococcus pyogenes was the cause, that of this germ there are several strains, of which one is streptococcus erysipelatis. The problem was to isolate this particular strain and to develop from it a serum. He succeeded...
Lobular pneumonia may be contracted through the air passages or by invasion through the blood system of many different kinds of germ?Micrococcus lanceolatus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, the tubercle bacillus, occasionally even the glanders bacillus, actinomyces (rayed fungoid), oidiomyces (egg-shaped fungoid...
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...