Word: typhoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only the specific disease and its location, but also the sex, race and religion of the patient. 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...
...first systematic investigation of Abrams is now under way, by the Scientific American (also investigating psychic phenomena?TIME, June 4). To an Abrams practitioner in New York, six tubes were submitted, containing pure cultures of typhoid, pneumococcus, colon septicaemia, tetanus, tuberculosis, diphtheria. None of them was correctly diagnosed, and all gave marked "ohmages" and vibratory rates for a number of diseases. Various explanations for the failure were made, and Dr. Abrams has promised to give personal demonstrations in New York for the Scientific American. An electrical expert, investigating for Science and Invention, points out technical inconsistencies which would condemn...
Vaccination against dysentery and typhoid fever by the mouth instead of by injection has been tried in Russia with favorable results, according to Dr. Shiemaskho, Soviet Commissar of Health. The vaccine was supplied by the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and Dr. Ludwik Rajehman, Medical Director of the League of Nations Health Committee, proposes to test the method experimentally and, if successful, to use it against epidemics in Eastern Europe...
...various colors to " stain " different species of bacteria. The tubercle bacillus does not stain easily, but when it does, it clings tenaciously to the dye, in spite of immersion in alcohol and strong acids, and for this reason is called " acid-fast." Non-acid-fast bacteria (such as the typhoid bacillus) yield readily to the " antibodies" produced by the injection of dead bacteria of the same disease. But the acid-fast germs are encased in or contain fatty cells called " lipoids," which resist digestion when injected into the body and thus generate no antibodies. Dreyer's idea...
...with a capital of $100, he combined with George T. Lanigan, the writer, to establish the Montreal Star. Cancer is the great enigma of medical science. Many of the most dreaded diseases have been brought under control or greatly mitigated-smallpox with vaccine, typhoid fever with chlorination, diphtheria with antitoxin, tuberculosis with an all-round hygienic program, yellow fever with mosquito control, leprosy with chaulmoogra oil, diabetes with insulin. But cancer goes marching on with no apparent check. Indeed, the cancer death rate in the registration area of the United States has risen gradually but steadily until...