Word: gelatinized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everything from making a diving lung to training a seal, ran a 3-D section on how to run a buzz saw, deliberately left out the 3-D glasses but provided instructions on three ways to make a pair. One way: "Dissolve an envelope of unflavored dessert gelatin in 3 oz. warm water. Heat in double boiler until dissolved. Add seven drops of food dye to a teaspoonful, and pour carefully onto enameled jar lid. Let harden 24 hours before peeling off ... Cut out two frames and cement your cutout filters between them...
...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...
When all these 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...
Neither Pat nor her mother, nor Dr. York, nor even Dr. William McDowell Hammon, the Pittsburgh epidemiologist in charge of the mass test, knew whether Pat got gamma globulin or ineffective (but harmless) gelatin. In that secrecy was the key to the whole experiment. The only way to find out whether gamma globulin can prevent paralysis from polio in humans as it has in monkeys (TIME, April 28) is to give it to tens of thousands of children, and give something else (to cut out the possible effects of suggestion) to an equal number of children under identical conditions...
...this week 12,674 Houstonians, an impressive start toward a goal of 35,000, had decided likewise. Next year, after the syringe numbers now locked in the safe of the company which packaged the G.G. and the gelatin have been checked against the incidence of polio and paralysis among the two groups of children, doctors will be able to tell the parents of Houston whether G.G. is a good...