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Infantile paralysis, also called poliomyelitis, is caused by a virus which destroys muscle-controlling nerves, mostly in the spinal cord. Eighty percent of cases occur in children under ten years, 98% in children under 15 years. The U.S. contains 37,000,000 boys and girls under 15 years...
...immunize the 37,000,000 U.S. children under 15. Although all kinds of monkeys may serve for the manufacture of the vaccine, the best kind is Macacus rhesus from India. To import one rhesus monkey to the U.S. costs $9. After it is infected, killed, and its spinal cord ground up with formalin, at a processing cost of $3 more, the finished vaccine is only enough to inoculate twelve children. But even if $37,000,000 were available for nation-wide immunization, the supply of rhesus monkeys in India is by no means unlimited...
...would finance the trip for 1,500 cadets, lend $7 to any other Louisiana State student who lacked funds. Purpose of the junket, said the "Kingfish," was to give the university a good name. At a student meeting, he gave out rules: "No liquor . . . no pulling the bell cord. . . . Don't take me lightly...
...woman rested a while, until she regained strength to expel the placenta. Then without pausing to tie the umbilical cord, she dressed herself, wrapped baby and placenta in a sheet, went forth for medical help. Two blocks away she found an incredulous policeman in a patrol car. He thought she was fooling until he looked at the baby. Then it was only a matter of minutes until Amelia Toner and daughter were in the best of civilized hospital care, both getting along well...
...Cord fled to Britain, fearing lest their two strapping boys, two baby girls be kidnapped. They took a big house near London, could not get on with English servants or tradesmen. They were pleased when their yacht arrived from the U. S. because it brought them "pure" tinned milk...