Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accidents with diphtheria serum at Concord and Bridgewater have not shaken our faith in either the efficacy or the desirability...
...during 1920 as a result of measles. The cause of the disease is unknown. It is particularly common and severe in schools, asylums, foundling homes. For years medical investigators have been attempting to find some method of protection, comparable to the protection now afforded for smallpox, typhoid, diphtheria. In 1916, C. Nicolle and E. Conseil of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis used the serum obtained from a patient convalescing from measles to secure protection against the disease. Last year F. von Torday collected the records of 2,000 cases in which the convalescent serum had been administered, and found that...
...that it may be used for tests which will show whether or not a person is likely to become infected with scarlet fever on exposure to the disease. The test used is a specific skin test much like the Schick test that is used for testing immunity to diphtheria. Dr. W. Mair of London, who has spent many years on the study of scarlet fever, has been able to confirm the specific character of a test originally worked out by Schultz and Charlton in Germany. In that test a small amount of serum from a patient who is convalescing from...
...born into an agreeably futile and wholly poverty-stricken family; education brushes him lightly by; diphtheria and a consequent period of paralysis afford him early opportunity for cheerful submission; he becomes identified with an advertising firm, then another, in which his native ingenuity and artistic talent bring him reasonable success. An abortive love affair with a co-worker is ended abruptly by the lady's untimely suicide; he finally marries a childhood sweetheart, against his mother's passionate protest, and finds in her a voracious wife who does her best to swallow his soul and finally runs away...
...first systematic investigation of Abrams is now under way, by the Scientific American (also investigating psychic phenomena?TIME, June 4). To an Abrams practitioner in New York, six tubes were submitted, containing pure cultures of typhoid, pneumococcus, colon septicaemia, tetanus, tuberculosis, diphtheria. None of them was correctly diagnosed, and all gave marked "ohmages" and vibratory rates for a number of diseases. Various explanations for the failure were made, and Dr. Abrams has promised to give personal demonstrations in New York for the Scientific American. An electrical expert, investigating for Science and Invention, points out technical inconsistencies which would condemn...