Word: felton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Felton, like Dr. Banting, discoverer of insulin (TIME, Aug. 27), is young, modest, unassuming. Born 32 years ago in Pinegrove Mills, Pa., he spent most of his youth in New Philadelphia, Ohio, was graduated in 1916 from Johns Hopkins University. He has been at Harvard since...
...powder. Dr. Felton since the general influenza epidemic of 1918-19 has been working with a commission organized by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in an attempt to find a remedy for influenza. Although he has not conquered influenza, he has found a serum for the most dreaded concomitant of that disease-the pneumonia which often put a fatal termination to a case of influenza...
...research work Dr. Felton took the unpurified serum as it was drawn from the blood of a horse. He filtered it, treated it electrically and chemically, tried always to extract rom it a pure solution of antibodies, ree from the injurious by-products that hitherto had rendered the horse serum nearly valueless. Eventually Dr. Felton found that when one part of the horse serum was mixed with ten parts water a white, fluffy precipitate appeared. He collected this precipitate, purified it, found that it dried into a white crystalline powder which he suspected contained the antibodies in highly concentrated form...
...year in he U. S., it is obvious that a saving of half, or even a quarter of these lives, is a matter of great moment. The announcement of the discovery and its possibilities was made with the authority of Dr. Milton J. Rosenau of Harvard, under whom Dr. Felton was working, Dr. William H. Park of Manhattan "and other conservative medical...
...Park: "I regard the prediction hat the new serum will cure 25% to 50% of the cases as too optimistic. If it cures 10% I shall still consider Dr. Felton's work a great advance in medical science. It is not, however, 'a new discovery'; it is simply purifying and condensing of the old serum. The new serum probably will be available to general practitioners in about a month...