Word: gebhardt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infantile paralysis season, three Stanford University men announced that they had isolated and measured an organism which they were certain caused infantile paralysis. The organism measures less than one-half millionth of an inch. The investigators- Drs. Charles Eglof Clifton, Edwin William Schultz and Louis Philipp Gebhardt-figured the size by filtering material from a case of infantile paralysis through the pores of unglazed, fine porcelain. They knew the size of the pores. The filtrate caused the active disease in monkeys. That confirmed the doctors' belief that they possessed the cause of the disease. "A very, very interesting addition...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Ann May Gebhardt was born 74 months after her grandmother had died and left a will which gave $2,000 "to each of my grandchildren who may be born after the making of this will and who may still be living at the time of my death." A judge decided that Ann May Gebhardt, though not yet born at the time of Grandma Gebhardt's death, was legally living, entitled...