Word: doc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Percheron horse who has had a mild case of diphtheria for almost nine years wore a garland of flowers around his neck for a party last week. He was 14-year-old Doc Dobbin, oldest diphtheria antitoxin horse in the laboratories of E. R. Squibb & Sons at New Brunswick, N. J. Because Doc Dobbin has produced antitoxin enough to treat 30,000 children, Dr. John F. Anderson, Squibb vice president, gave a birthday party on the anniversary of Doc Dobbin's ninth year of service. One hundred school children from Highland Park, N. J. attended. The birthday table...
Then Dr. Anderson explained what Doc Dobbin had done to deserve the party. When he was five years old a dose of diphtheria germs was injected into Doc Dobbin's flank. Within a day, he felt sick. A week later when he had recovered he was given another dose. After the third injection, each succeeding dose was increased. At the end of three months, Doc Dobbin could stand ten times as much diphtheria poison as he had first received. He had formed substances in his blood to fight the germs. Laboratory men withdrew blood from Doc Dobbin...
...crowds. The Brotherhood never materialized. After Harvard he went to Oxford, joined George Bernard Shaw's Fabian Society. After Oxford he studied medicine at Manhattan's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Although he never received a medical degree, all hoboes whom he tried to befriend called him "Doc...