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...short-lived protective effect.) Among the children who were observed for evidence of polio but who got no shots, there were eleven deaths. Among children who got placebo shots, there were four deaths. It Is Potent. This quality was measured by the vaccine's ability to raise the bloodstream concentration of antibodies that can defeat an invasion by the polio virus. To prove it, 27,000 blood samples from 9,000 children, taken before and at intervals after vaccination, were meticulously studied. (This part of the evaluation program alone involved highly technical work with 2.000,000 test tubes, took...
...infusion bottle hanging from a stand on casters. This elaborate rig, which Reeve moved along with him, was needed to keep him from being immobilized for eight hours while ACTH dripped slowly into his veins so that research doctors could study what happened to hormones in Reeve's bloodstream...
...churches: 24-year-old Ruth Hepner (Assemblies of God) of Hamilton. Mont, and 22-year-old Florence Shetler (Brethren) of Robinson, Pa. Both have spent weeks taking tiny daily doses of cortisone and giving frequent blood samples so that doctors can measure the rate of its disappearance from the bloodstream. For still more refined studies they have taken hormones tagged with radioactive atoms...
...cigarette cases were designed to fire when the lid was open, exposing what looked like a full pack of cigarettes. But the cigarettes were only butt-length tips; behind them was the mechanism designed to fire a charge of poison into a man's bloodstream by a mere squeeze of the finger at the point where the case was naturally held in proffering a smoke...
...from the intestines. In unsanitary societies, everybody is soon exposed to the virus. If the challenge of infection comes in earliest infancy, that is good. For if the mother has been exposed and has antibodies, she passes them on to her baby. They stay in the baby's bloodstream, giving "passive immunity" (TIME, Nov. 5, 1951) for about three months. Exposure to the virus during that time usually causes no detectable symptoms, but results in lifelong, active immunity...