Word: streptococcus
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...body, but has an antiseptic effect against the germs of a great many diseases. It has been tested against 255 diseases. In many of them, the number of cases treated was so small that it has been impossible to draw conclusions. In cases of infection due to streptococcus viridans, and in cases of pyelonephritis failures have been recorded. There have been marked successes, however, in the use of mercurochrome against pneumonia in children, against septicaemia, streptococcus hemolyticus and pyogenes, staphylococcus and against many other general and local infections. When the uses of mercurochrome are thoroughly determined, the result...
...George F. Dick and Gladys H. Dick of the John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases, Chicago, have isolated a streptococcus* from a patient with scarlet fever with which they have been able to produce scarlet fever in two out of ten volunteers who asked for the innoculation. Now they have discovered that the fluid which may be filtered from growths of these bacteria apparently contains a toxin, and that it may be used for tests which will show whether or not a person is likely to become infected with scarlet fever on exposure to the disease. The test used...
...Streptococcus-a genus of micro-organisms which do not move but remain grouped in long chains, producing pus and causing pneumonia, erysipelas...
...Areas of dullness are distinguished for Catholics, Methodists, Seventh Day Adventists, Theosophists, Protestants and Jews! The diagnoses seem to be restricted in number, but include several serious microbic diseases ? tuberculosis, typhoid, acquired or congenital "diminished resistance" (euphemistic for syphilis), carcinoma (cancer), sarcoma (tumor), gonorrhea, malaria, influenza, colon septicaemia, streptococcus and staphylococcus infections. Most patients have traces of several of these, and the majority are found to have some form of syphilis. Autographs of Samuel Johnson, Poe, Longfellow, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Pepys and Bret Harte have been tested by Dr. Abrams, revealing that all of them suffered from various dread...
Julian Henry Reinherz '18, of Brookline, died at his home on December 22 of malignant endo-carditis. He had been ill for over six weeks with an infection of the streptococcus germ which finally spread to his heart, causing death. This disease, though by no means rare, is rather unusual...