Word: antitoxins
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Last week the Roosevelt Memorial Association anticipated that event by promising to give Dr. Park the Roosevelt Medal for 1935 next October because, by introducing diphtheria antitoxin to this country, he reduced diphtheria deaths among New York City children from 295 to three per 100,000; because his laboratory was the first in the world to apply the discoveries of Pasteur and Koch to public health; because for 41 years he managed to keep his laboratory out of the hands of New York City politicians...
Suggestion, "which injects a psychological antitoxin into the patient's mind to drive out the mental infection...
...years ago Dr. Newell Simmons Ferry, whom Parke, Davis & Co. had hired from the University of Tennessee, began to hunt for a toxin which the meningococci might excrete. The epidemic of four years ago spurred him on, led him to develop an antitoxin in the blood of horses...
Last week Parke, Davis sent up a glad shout from Detroit that not only is Dr. Ferry's meningitis antitoxin a definite means of telling whether or not a child is susceptible to cerebro-spinal meningitis, but that in all probability three stiff doses will protect the child against the disease. Dr. Ferry, with the help of Dr. Arthur Harvey Steele and Dr. Robert Henry Haskell, proved his thesis on the students of the Wayne County Training School at Northville, Mich...
Match for Dr. Ferry's good news was Dr. Archibald L. Hoyne's good news from Chicago. Dr. Hoyne has been using intravenous injections of Dr. Ferry's antitoxin on active cases of meningitis in Cook County Hospital. Most cases responded promptly. Against the general 50% mortality rate, Dr. Hoyne last week presented a 25% mortality rate, due, said he, to the Ferry antitoxin...