Word: firor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warfield Monroe Firor of Johns Hopkins has long worried about this paradox. About 18 months ago he got the hunch that the tetanus toxin which causes the first stage of the disease must be different from the poison which causes the second fatal stage. To test his hunch he injected both small and large amounts of tetanus toxin directly into the spinal cords of more than 60 dogs. The injections were always followed by muscular paroxysms and death, even though 100 times the neutralizing dose of antitoxin was in the bloodstream and even though some doses of the poison were...
Last week Dr. Firor told members of the Society of University Surgeons, meeting at Rochester, N. Y., the conclusions of his research. As long as tetanus toxin has not had time to enter the spinal cord, he said, tetanus antitoxin can neutralize the poison and check the disease. But once toxin enters the cord, it somehow becomes transformed into a new poison. "The new substance is not attacked by the present antitoxin," said Dr. Firor. In answer to questions of enthusiastic colleagues, he said that he will shortly try to prepare a second antitoxin which will cure the final stages...
Adolf Gobel, Inc. sells 1,248 meat items, is chiefly famed for its frankfurters, is ranked as a big company by virtue of its sales ($46,000,000 last year) if not for its earnings ($131,298 last year). President is Frank Martin Firor, 58, who became Gobel's head in 1927 when it merged with George Kern Inc., for which he was working. Founder Adolf Gobel died four years...
President Firor is delighted with the beer & ham campaign, plans to use it throughout the land. He has selected the Woman's Committee for the Repeal of the 18th Amendment as the organization to which the Gobel anti-Prohibition contributions go. He would not say last week how much cash each can of hash would yield...