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Kitasato, Shibasaburo

(Encyclopedia) Kitasato, ShibasaburoKitasato, Shibasaburoshĭbäˈsäb&oomacr;rō kēˈtäsäˈtō [key], 1852–1931, Japanese physician. He worked with Robert Koch in Germany (1885–91), and with Emil…

toxoid

(Encyclopedia) toxoid, protein toxin treated by heat or chemicals so that its poisonous property is destroyed but its capacity to stimulate the formation of toxin antibodies, or antitoxins, remains.…

Yersin, Alexandre Émile Jean

(Encyclopedia) Yersin, Alexandre Émile JeanYersin, Alexandre Émile JeanälĕksäNˈdrə āmēlˈ zhän yĕrsăNˈ [key], 1863–1943, French bacteriologist, of Swiss descent. He studied with Pasteur and worked on…

Schick, Béla

(Encyclopedia) Schick, BélaSchick, Bélabāˈlə shĭk [key], 1877–1967, American pediatrician, b. Hungary, M.D. Karl Franz Univ., Graz, 1900. After having taught at the Univ. of Vienna (1902–23), he came…

Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner

(Encyclopedia) Nuttall, George Henry FalkinerNuttall, George Henry Falkinernŭtˈôl [key], 1862–1937, American-British bacteriologist, b. San Francisco, M.D. Univ. of California, 1884, Ph.D. Univ. of…

Welch, William Henry

(Encyclopedia) Welch, William Henry, 1850–1934, American pathologist, b. Norfolk, Conn., grad. Yale (B.A., 1870), M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons (now part of Columbia Univ., 1875). After…

croup

(Encyclopedia) croupcroupkr&oomacr;p [key], acute obstructive laryngitis in young children, usually between the ages of three and six. The manifestations are a high-pitched cough and difficulty…

Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott

(Encyclopedia) Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott, 1857–1952, English neurophysiologist, educated at Cambridge. He was professor of physiology at the universities of Liverpool and London and at Oxford.…

intoxication

(Encyclopedia) intoxication, condition of body tissue affected by a poisonous substance. Poisonous materials, or toxins, are to be found in heavy metals such as lead and mercury, in drugs, in…

Iditarod

(Encyclopedia) IditarodIditarodīdĭtˈərŏdˌ [key], abandoned town in SW Alaska, site of a 1908 gold rush, on the Iditarod River. The town site and river lie on the Iditarod National Historic Trail, 2,…