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...room with the safety rules and precautions of a radioisotope laboratory, 2 cc. of fluid containing live polio virus are added as a seed stock to each quart of tissue fluid. Back to the rocker go the bottles. The virus multiplies a thousandfold in the kidney cells, and after about four days the potentially deadly crop is ready for harvest. It is chilled in 2½gal. bottles for trucking from Toronto to Eli Lilly & Co. and to Parke, Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Closing in on Polio | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...looked as though it was the Lancias' day, after all. Taruffi's No. 38 was well out in front, nine full laps (46 miles) ahead of the next car. In second place, but hopelessly behind, was Briggs Cunningham's third entry, a little (1.452 cc.) Italian Osca alternately driven during the day by Britain's Stirling Moss and Connecticut's Bill Lloyd. But with only an hour to go, Taruffi's Lancia ground to a halt. In the Cunningham pits, where the Osca driver could see it when he flashed by, they held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Twelve-Hour Test | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...charge of the program in their areas. Local doctors will give the shots with chapters of the National Foundation supplying volunteer clerical and nursing help. No child will be vaccinated without written consent of parents or guardians. Each child selected will receive three injections, each of 1 cc. of triple vaccine in water, the first two shots a week apart, the third (booster) shot a month later. All shots will be given in the arm and should be virtually painless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: D-Day Against Polio | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...plastic, "squeeze-a-drop" bottle is being marketed for overweight and diabetic Americans by E. R. Squibb & Sons. Made from saccharin, Squibb's "Sweeta" can cut a 900-calorie dinner (soup, chicken en casserole, rice, peas, salad, chocolate-frosted cake) down to 550 calories. Price: 69? for 24 cc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

With 84 cases (at least 30 of them paralytic) in a population of 43,000, North Carolina's Caldwell County in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains was actually the nation's hardest hit. The ODM released 100,000 cc of gamma globulin for about 11,000 children under ten, who were to get their shots this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gamma Globulin Season | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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