Word: antitoxins
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...George Frederick Dick and his wife Dr. Gladys Henry Dick of Chicago took a hemolytic streptococcus (blood-dissolving bacilli) from a lesion in the finger of an infected nurse and injected the germs into a 25-year-old woman. She developed scarlet fever. The Dicks developed a scarlet fever antitoxin. Last week's Germans, Professors Heinrich Finkelstein and Fritz Meyer of Berlin, claimed to have found the specific hemolytic streptococcus in the mucous membranes of the infected pharynx,* and from it developed a specific immunizing antitoxin...
...Angeles (school and park site planning, highways ahead of needs); Milwaukee (city employment offices); Chicago (parked waterfront); Auburn, N. Y. (wiping out diphtheria by general toxin-antitoxin immunization); Detroit (best type school buildings); Gary. Ind. (work-study-play method of education); Dallas (adult education); Cleveland (adult education; education against venereal disease; teaching parents how to raise children); Washington (education against venereal disease); Boston (district health centres); St. Louis (plenty of hospital beds); San Francisco (prevention, treatment & instruction of hard of hearing); Winnetka, Ill. (progressive education...
That is to say, in a population of some 120 millions there is a little group of 140,000 who adhere to a brand of delusion known as Christian Science; and, in view of the fact that it is a delusion that fosters the withholding of toxin antitoxin from children choking with diphtheria, it is to say that even...
...fever; A. C. Geyser is a promoter of the 'tricho system'; George E. Harter is the founder and director of the Defensive Diet League; E. M. Perdue has a cancer cure. And then there is Koch-William F. Koch, M.D., Detroit, Mich.- inventor of the Koch synthetic antitoxin for the cure of cancer. According to his bulletin, some 300 physicians will gather to discuss the use of the Koch remedy in cancer. But one meeting is to be a joint meeting with the distinguished members of the American Association for Medico-Physical research. The Koch representatives should...
...Plank of the Colorado National Guard, soared over. They flew to Silverton, Col., 200 miles from Denver, over crags and chasms no one had ever before crossed. All of Silverton, for four weeks completely snowbound, floundered over to the town baseball lot to see mail, food, newspapers and diphtheria antitoxin drop from the skies into a snowbank. The factory siren kept up a steady shriek. Oldest inhabitants ants shifted their quids to ejaculate. It was not only the first visitor in a month but their first airplane ever-just skimming the housetops, circling higher, shining in the sun, veering...