Word: aycock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oestrogen. One of the few facts known about the polio virus is that it usually enters the body through the delicate mucous membranes of the nose. Five years ago, while studying polio epidemics in Massachusetts and Vermont, Dr. William Lloyd Aycock of Harvard noticed that polio often ran in families, even when brothers and sisters were living far apart. He suspected that children of these susceptible families might have inherited unusually thin nose linings, easily penetrated by the polio virus. So he decided to set up "virus barriers" of tough new cells in the nasal membranes of monkeys by injecting...
...monkeys into two groups. Group One was given oestrogen injections, then nasal sprays of polio virus. Group Two was given no oestrogen but was merely infected with the virus. Result: Only twelve members of Group One came down with polio, 22 members of Group Two. Most likely, said Dr. Aycock last week, artificial thickening of their nasal membranes protected the first group of monkeys against the disease. Whether oestrogen barriers might also protect human beings, he did not venture...
Arthur W. Allen, lecturer in Surgery; William Lloyd Aycock, assistant professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene; Walter Bauer, associate professor of Medicine; Kenneth D. Blackfan, Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics; Herrman L. Blumgart '17, associate professor of Medicine; Dean Burwell, research professor of Clinical Medicine; Allen M. Butler, associate in Pedriatrics; Cannon; William B. Castle '17, associate professor of Medicine; Henry A. Christian '03, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic; Stanley Cobb '10, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology; Bronson Crothers '05, assistant professor of Pedriatics; Elliott C. Cutler '09, Moseley Professor of Surgery, James L. Gamble, professor...
...Harvard Commission was established 20 years ago, and its research has been directed by W. Lloyd Aycock, assistant professor of Preventive Medicine. Although connected with the University, it raises its own funds by public subscription and functions as a separate research unit...
...Aycock has been studying the St. Mark's outbreak since its first case was reported, and the Commission has been doing research work on it for some time. The recent contribution is to be used in the study of infantile paralysis prevention, especially in respect to the St. Mark's epidemic...