Word: welchii
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...important, highly technical work on Bright's disease (of the kidneys), thrombosis (formation of blood clots), arterial disease. He also performed some of the pioneer experiments in the cause of diphtheria. Perhaps his most significant contribution was his discovery of a germ which became his namesake, the Bacillus welchii, producer of gas gangrene. This was his last piece of laboratory research. In the early 1900s he gradually moved into the spotlight, began "charming and beguiling" millionaires out of money for public health, lighting firecrackers under stodgy old professors, hammering principles of hygiene into the public ear. For some years...
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