Word: derr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he seems secretive, Dr. Lloyd Derr Felton of Johns Hopkins went to Philadelphia last week where he cautiously urged doctors not to use a vaccine which he developed as a pneumonia preventive* (TIME, Sept. 13) until he has better proof of its efficacy...
...heavy smokers and some three years ago they got to discussing some means of eliminating nicotine. Mr. Davis thought of an aluminum holder with a filter of activated alumina, an absorbent much used in chemistry. This proved too expensive, but in the experiments Aluminum Co. Chemist R. B. Derr noticed that butts of the cigarets in contact with aluminum were always soggy and black with absorbed nicotine and tar. This was because tobacco is itself one of the best possible nicotine absorbers and because aluminum's sensitivity to temperature makes it condense the fumes quickly. Chemist Derr tried using...
...under the skin, it stimulates the blood to develop antibodies which kill specific germs. There are 32 different types of pneumococci. SSS is effective only against Types I and II, which cause half of the cases of pneumonia in this country. The inventor of Soluble Specific Substance, Dr. Lloyd Derr Felton, who had experimented at Harvard and now at Johns Hopkins, hopes to develop similar sugary substances to be used against other pneumonia types. But before he can turn all of his attention to that effort, he must finish supervising the production of the CCC's SSS supply. This...
...almost agree with the Paramount's advance statement, which claims that Earl Derr Bigger's oriental sleuth as portrayed in the movies is rapidly taking his place by the lean side of Sherlock Holmes. Charlie Chan, spouting the cherished wisdom of the East, is rapidly becoming one of the screen's few lasting fabrications...
...last week Professor Lloyd Derr Felton of Harvard went to Johns Hopkins Medical School, where once he studied and taught, to say that a pneumonia vaccine which he invented seemed to be valid. He had given the vaccine to 3,000 people, including himself. Not one had developed pneumonia, although in the ordinary course of life ten or a dozen of them should have contracted the disease...