Word: tubercular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...living tubercle bacilli. The acid is new to science. When it is injected into rabbits it produces in their bodies the nodules peculiar as symptoms of tuberculosis, but of no other disease. Said R. J. Anderson of Yale: "This discovery that a nonliving substance may be the cause ot tubercular growth, opens up an entirely new mode of approach in the search for an immunizing agent. In the past there has been no way of proving whether the growth of the tubercle in tubercular organisms was the result of direct action of the living bacillus...
...noisy collection of superfluous bluebooks, will beam happily at any question and bring in the ink, Q. Caboose, graduate student from N. Y. U. who hates undergraduates, will wear pince-nez glasses and a soiled collar. And Johan Wisteria, former student of the drama at Yale, the Tubercular Cough in several plays by Eugene O'Neill, will be identified by his stage whisper and his inability to diagnose approaching rupture until it has been carefully explained...
...reply. Professor Eugene Lindsay Opie, director of the Henry Phipps Institute at Philadelphia, which is devoted almost entirely to tuberculosis research, is a greater authority on the immunology of tuberculosis than is Dr. Fishberg. After following diseased individuals and couples for years, he opposes Dr. Fishberg and believes that tubercular reinfection is possible...
Mummy Germs: Tubercular bacilli found in Egyptian mummies are just like those that infest human bodies today. The characteristics of living matter change only as environment changes. Primitive living molecules were and are proteins. There is no life save in protein. The first evidence of life is metabolism or trading in energy. Biologists say the origin of species is due to changes in the formation of cells. In fact it is due to changes in types of proteins based on differences in environment.?Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, National Research Council...
...tubercular cases, Surgeon Sauerbruch told the German scientists, although a few already knew the facts, the tubercular patients are entirely cured; in another 40% they can resume earning a living; the rest do not improve, die in a brief time...