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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychology as a post-Freudian age might complacently assume. Pope's sin (in modern usage, his neurosis or maladjustment) is explored with devoted detachment by Peter Quennell in the first of a promised two-volume work on the little cripple whose verses fixed a thousand human insects in Formalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Gulliver Among Lilliputians | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...order to properly appraise the value of the two vaccines, one should examine their differences. Both are made from live polio viruses, cultured in test tubes on monkey kidney tissue. In the Salk process, the viruses are heated in formalin, killing them and making them safe for injection into the human blood stream. Fourteen days after the first shot, antibodies appear in the blood, giving a slight amount of protection against all three types of polio virus. Then a booster shot is administered and seven months later another booster, both raising the antibody level. A year later a fourth injection...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Salk and Sabin | 3/2/1963 | See Source »

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