Word: antitoxins
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Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.; enrollment, 3,146) suspended all classes one afternoon last week so that the students might parade to the railroad station, return and present to President Frank Palmer Speare a muscular, thick-furred canine, one of the famed Husky-dog team that took diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925. It was a gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard...
...Angeles, Calif., idlers, bummers, run-dums, hooligans, drugstore cowboys, shuffled into a dime museum "for men only" to gawp at stimulating pictures, grisly specimens, pickled freaks, wax wonders, and at Balto, famed Alaskan husky dog, who pulled the lead trace on the sledge that carried diphtheria antitoxin to Nome two winters ago; the dog to whom Manhattan erected a bronze statue...
Pneumonia Antitoxin. An antitoxin possibly efficacious against the four types of pneumonia** has just been devised. If the symptoms (sharp pains in chest, chills, temperature rise, coughing) are quickly heeded and this new antitoxin given within 48 hours, then the prognosis seems good. The reporters...
...Needless Antitoxin. Antitoxin against scarlet fever has kept people from catching the disease in several widely scattered U. S. cities where tests were made, reported Dr. John F. Anderson of New Brunswick, N. J. But Dr. William H. Park of the New York City Health Department amended the optimism by pointing out that scarlet fever is not highly contagious, that the antitoxin should be administered to cure, not needlessly to prevent...
Immunity. There is no autoimmunity to erysipelas. Therefore Dr. Birkhaug advises that a person subject to this disease should take a prophylatic injection of the antitoxin serum to counteract a future sickness...