Word: diphtheria
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...accepts his daughter's marriage to a "medicaler" with bitter resignation but he is overjoyed when she bears a boy who, he believes, will inherit the Hofnagel power. When the baby contracts diphtheria Hofnagel prevents his son-in-law from administering antitoxin by shooting him in the shoulder, kills the baby with his own mumbo-jumbo. These events are developed in a sharp atmosphere of authenticity, tautly directed by Arthur Beckhard, expert handler of family groups (Another Language). Good performances: William F. Schoeller as Hofnagel, Jules Epailly as a rival wizard, Victor Kilian as a slow-witted yokel...
...babies under six months catch measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria or infantile paralysis. Why, asked Drs. Charles Fremont McKhann Jr. & F. T. Chu of Harvard's pediatrics department...
...blood or milk. But there are arguments against that conception. A more tenable theory: the rapidly multiplying fetal and infant cells may establish a general protection called ''tissue immunity." If so, opined Drs. McKhann & Chu, the placenta (afterbirth) must contain substances which would prevent measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria and infantile paralysis in older children. With this idea they made some water extracts of after-births...
First they proved on guinea pigs, rabbits and themselves that the placental extracts were not poisonous and caused no sex derangements. Then on guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys they demonstrated that the extract neutralized diphtheria toxin and infantile paralysis virus, and caused scarlet fever rashes to blanch. By good fortune 15 children who never had had measles were exposed to measles in Drs. McKhann & Chu's hospital. Ordinarily every one of them would have caught it. So the doctors took a small risk by injecting each child with the placental extract. Fourteen children showed no signs of measles...
...embryo under ordinary atmosphere. New generations developed in seven to ten days and accelerated efforts to produce immunization agents. Eventually the investigators hope to devise a skin test for leprosy which will make detection of that disease as simple and as certain as the present skin tests for tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever...