Word: antitoxins
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Talk with Angels. In his early, field-service days, Dr. Dyer fought bubonic plague in Louisiana and Texas, pellagra in South Carolina, and World War I's influenza in Massachusetts. He standardized scarlet fever toxin and antitoxin, which took much of the panic out of a once-dreaded disease. Dr. Dyer doubts that his preparations are ever used nowadays, for antibiotics have almost finished the job he started...
Until Nurse Bond arrived six days later, Miss Wilson made daily trips on snowshoes between her base camp four miles away and the Indian camp, where she was finally permitted to administer antitoxin to the hypodermic-shy natives. As she won the Indians' confidence, she learned that a 60-year-old woman had first come down with diphtheria in October. After that the disease had spread from tepee to tepee; three victims had already died. With antitoxin and penicillin strapped to their bodies to keep the drugs from freezing in the 40°-below weather, the two nurses examined...
Died. Joe Crosson, 45, veteran bush pilot, "Troubleshooter of the Arctic"; of a heart attack; in Seattle. Flying by the seat of his pants over the uncharted Northland, Crosson became famed for his mercy trips (in a 1931 diphtheria epidemic he took antitoxin to Point Barrow, repeated the feat five years later during a scarlet fever epidemic in Fairbanks...
...first warning came from a Norwalk, Conn, hospital. Three baby boys, after being dosed with Analbis rectal suppositories, came down with violent poisoning symptoms-vomiting, cramps, drowsiness, convulsions. One was saved by an antitoxin and the other two died of liver poisoning. The drug's manufacturers promptly stopped shipments...
...sanitary engineers, 40 dentists. But it had plenty of miracle workers like DDT and penicillin. To trouble spots, UNRRA shipped: 7.5 million pounds of DDT powder, 809,550 million units of penicillin, one million pounds of sulfa drugs, six million cc of diphtheria toxoid, 5,167 million units of antitoxin. By 1946's end, UNRRA reported, typhoid, which had caused Europe's most serious postwar epidemic, was under control, diphtheria had been greatly reduced, typhus was rare, smallpox and plague had virtually been wiped...