Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, long ago assigned the infantile paralysis problem to himself. He announced that what he suspected is almost certainly true?the virus of the disease gets into the system through the mucous membranes of the nose and upper throat...
...Infantile paralysis is a nerve disease. The virus destroys nerves. Hence muscles become useless. But in only a small proportion of cases does the disease progress to paralysis, and comparatively few of the paralyzed remain that way long...
They took anterior pituitary hormones from sheep and rats and gave them to monkeys a year and a half old, the age which compares with the most susceptible period in children. Then they injected infantile paralysis virus into the monkeys. Some of the monkeys had passing attacks of paralysis, others did not catch it at all. But all of them grew up suddenly, acquired the sex maturity of three-year-old monkeys. Those not treated with pituitary hormones usually developed paralysis from the virus, died. Drs. Jungeblut & Engle concluded that pituitary hormones, not immunity through exposure (the general theory), enable...
Even Boston, for which a loyal Mayor claims a reservoir of culture, even to landscapping his name thereto in a fair, bold hand, can support little but farces and melodrama on its stage. As a stronghold of sensationalism, Boston thus shows the pruritan virus still at its worst. Until questions of sex can be fairly dealt with, fairly given a time and place, and fairly forgotten for something slightly more entertaining, Mrs. Grundy will sit in our audiences. Until then every stock company must be Comstocked and critics can always expect an infusion of Bowdlerism and balderdash...
This year comparatively few rabbits are dying of tularemia (rabbit fever). By 1935 great numbers will die, figures Professor Robert Gladding Green, University of Minnesota bacteriologist. The disease wanes with the number of ticks which carry the virus. This year each infected rabbit carried an average of 400 ticks. In tularemia years each rabbit averages 10,000 ticks...