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...William McDowell Hammon, Pittsburgh epidemiologist, told the American Public Health Association in Cleveland that "significant protection" against the paralyzing effects of polio can be given by inoculating children in epidemic areas with gamma globulin...
...results of the $1,000,000 tests (paid for by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) in Provo, Utah, Sioux City, Iowa, and Houston (TIME, July 14). In all, 54,772 children aged one to eleven got inoculations while polio epidemics were raging. Half the children received shots of gamma globulin, the small fraction of human blood which contains protective antibodies. The other half received useless (but harmless) gelatin. Nobody, not even the doctors, knew at the time which child got which shot...
...facts were known, the records went to the foundation, which checked each victim's syringe number against the manufacturer's list to see whether the child had had G.G. or gelatin. The results reported by Dr. Hammon were heartening: of more than 27,000 children who received gamma globulin, only 2 developed paralytic polio; of an equal number who received gelatin, 64 suffered some paralysis. And, Dr. Hammon added, it looks as though the attacks were milder and shorter-lived for children who had G.G. than for the others...
Science & Medicine 84. As an epidemic gripped Houston, Texas, doctors injected thousands of children with gamma globulin to see if it will prevent: 1. Sleeping sickness...
...physicists agree that negative protons are possible, but some like to speculate on the properties of reversed matter. It may turn into energy as soon as it encounters atoms of normal matter (when a positron hits an electron, they annihilate each other, leaving gamma rays as an X to mark the spot. All such possibilities, says Auger, are on "the frontiers of science." Only the 30 billion-volt cosmotron can test their reality...