Word: tomarkin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Antimicrobum tomarkin is the rather unoriginal cognomen of a new and powerful bactericide for the treatment of pneumonia, discovered by Dr. Leander Tomarkin, a young Swiss physician of Russian origin, conducting researches in laboratories at Rome...
...form of gray powders contained in gelatin capsules, soluble in water, and apparently administered by way of the mouth. Used in cases of pneumonia at the University of Rome and Italian military hospitals, it is claimed to have reduced the morality rate from 35% to 2%. Dr. Tomarkin's offer to treat the late Pope Benedict, who died from pneumonia, was at first refused by the Vatican authorities, but he was finally called in when the Pope's condition was desperate, too late to save the patient...
...demand detailed scientific tests. At Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan, a serum has been developed during the last three years which has cut the pneumonia deathrate from 30% to 15%, according to Dr. Russell L. Cecil. Many other investigators have been working on pneumonia remedies, mostly of a serological nature. Dr. Tomarkin's cure merits favorable consideration, at least, from the fact that it is vouched for by Professor Ettore Marchiafava, one of the most respected of Italian medical scientists, famous for his work on plasmodium, the germ of malaria...
...story of Dr. Tomarkin's success is the usual chronicle of struggles with privation, and perseverance in the face of continued popular disbelief. During the fatal illness of the late Pope Benedict, he volunteered his services, only to be received with coolness and question...
...Tomarkin and his fellow scientists would seem to have a thankless task on their hands in striving to find means with which to prolong life and crush out sickness and disease. As human nature apparently stands at present, each person who is saved today from the ravages of consumption and pneumonia is one more to serve tomorrow as a target for gas waves and poison bombs. Destruction has always been a much more interesting pastime than mere beneficial prevention. This is proved by the popular renown of such geniuses as Attila, Nero, and Guy Fawkes, about whom every student...