Word: globulin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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...
...next test of mass inoculations with gamma globulin as a protection against the paralyzing aftereffects of poliomyelitis, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis picked the area around Sioux City (Woodbury County, Iowa, and Dakota County, Neb.). It hoped to give the needle this week to 16,500 youngsters, aged one to eleven...
...thousands of parents who took children, aged one to six, through Houston's eight inoculation centers, which worked day after day and right through the Fourth of July holiday. Some mothers had pestered doctors, before the inoculations began, trying to arrange for their children to get gamma globulin. A few intended to go through with the experiment, and then blithely undermine it by having their family physician give their children a "sure" shot of "G.G.," as they have come to call...
...thinking." Other mothers nodded, recognizing the pattern of their own afterthoughts. "It can't hurt them," the plump one went on, "so we haven't lost a thing in coming. We've got a 50-50 chance with each child of getting gamma globulin, and if we get it we know it might be some help or protection against polio. And whether we get the G.G. shot or not, or even whether it does any good or not, we'll have done something to help find the answer to one question about polio. So my husband...