Word: virus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigators of the U. S. Health Department decided that encephalitis is "a specific disease and must be caused by a specific living virus which has a specific affinity for the central nervous system." It is sui generis. The virus eludes discovery...
...causative microbe of the disease is still unknown. A number have been cultivated from the virus, but their identity with the germ is doubtful. It may be destroyed by heating to 60° Centigrade, and has been demonstrated by German investigators to be capable of passing through the pores of a porcelain filter. It probably belongs therefore to the class of ultramicroscopic organisms called filterable viri. One attack of the disease usually confers immunity on the cattle for several years, and animals have been imunized artificially by dosages of the sera of infected animals...
...woman she was going to grow to be -strong, keen-minded, intelligent, a woman of quality, fit to mother a prince or a president. I used to call her the wonder girl. Then came the day when they bared her soft, well-rounded arm and jabbed it with the virus point. She didn't want it done. . . . And her par-ents fought against it. ... but the authorities, the tools of the medical autocrats, insisted. So they injected into that blooming, perfect body the wicked vaccine virus, poisonous pus that comes from the sore of a diseased...
...more entertaining surroundings of the St. Louis slums. A year or two of this and she is almost done. She forces an exit, and we next see her as a successful business woman in New York. On the eve of an advantageous marriage, she is overtaken by a lurking virus of her earlier obliquity, is driven to suicide...
There are a few specimens of the type "realism" in the collection which provoke the question, Is not the thesis of realism, a valuable and truthful thesis in itself, already proved to satiety? Ought not the case to be rested? The virus has been injected into the body politic these many years; are not all purposes of innoculation served? Surely the last pair of rosy spectacles has been dashed from the last contented nose; surely there is left no benighted Victorian who has not learned that "beauty" is a quivering suggestion of sex and neurosis? For there seems...