Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British book reviewers are immune to the virus of British understatement. When Marghanita Laski's The Victorian Chaise Longue was published in London six months ago, the Manchester Guadian hailed it as showing "almost ferocious power." Said Time and Tide: "[Miss Laski] stacked every card against herself to make her final really-grand slam more miraculous...
There is no evidence that typical human cancers have anything to do with a virus. And if there were, treatment with antibiotics would do no good because none has been found to have any effect on true viruses. These stubborn facts have not deterred Dr. John E. Gregory of Pasadena, Calif. To "prove" his thesis that human cancer is caused by a virus, he has put out a book with photographs purporting to show the virus particles under the electron microscope. He grosses $400,000 a year by treating up to 300 patients a day with "Gregomycin," which he calls...
...proof that Gregory's micrographs actually showed a virus, let alone one which might be a cause of cancer...
...their air-conditioned laboratories (environment in the center is controlled to the last decimal), P.H.S. researchers, working under exhaust hoods, are trying to cultivate the virus of infectious hepatitis (TIME, Feb. 8), which is often waterborne. A mycologist has isolated 150 different kinds of fungi, some of which may cause disease, from river water. And glass tanks are filled with minnows to test how much cyanide wastes can go into river water without killing nature's scavengers...
...facts: the batches of vaccine containing live virus were all from pilot runs by manufacturers tooling up for the mass inoculations planned by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (TIME, March 29). None made according...