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Henry Spahlinger, 40, is a competent bacteriologist, a onetime student of science, medicine and law at the University of Geneva. Twenty years ago he produced what he believed was a vaccine against tuberculosis. He would not reveal how he prepared the vaccine, a secrecy which vexed other bacteriologists and made physicians suspicious of his claims. Certain patients in London hospitals submitted to the Spahlinger treatment. A few of them apparently were cured. His talkative, rich friends bruited his "cures," gave him unprofessional fame. A manufacturer of patent medicines offered him, it was said, $1,000.000 for his "formula." That "bribe...
...everyone in Science knows, the Rockefeller Institute, harbor of two Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine (Drs. Alexis Carrel and Karl Landsteiner) is where Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Sinclair Lewis' Dr. Martin Arrowsmith worked. Paul de Kruif, able bacteriologist, who gave Author Sinclair all the learned facts and scientific color for Arrowsmith, put in two years at the Rockefeller Institute...
...William Hallock Park, bacteriologist for the City, State and Nation in the Manhattan area and mainstay of the city's health activities, declared that serum taken from the blood of people convalescing from infantile paralysis was not especially valuable in preventing the disease in others. Said he: "We found that the percentage of cases which developed the paralytic symptoms was about the same as in the cases in which the serum was not used. No harm resulted from the treatment. But it was apparent that no benefits resulted...
Since then he has been active as an engineer, shipbuilder, bacteriologist, airport operator, realtor. In Santa Barbara, where he owns Ovington Air Terminal, he flies his thirteenth plane. He is also an ardent, skilled yachtsman. He is president of the Early Birds, organization of pilots who won their wings prior...
This year comparatively few rabbits are dying of tularemia (rabbit fever). By 1935 great numbers will die, figures Professor Robert Gladding Green, University of Minnesota bacteriologist. The disease wanes with the number of ticks which carry the virus. This year each infected rabbit carried an average of 400 ticks. In tularemia years each rabbit averages 10,000 ticks...