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...cases reported in the U.S. as a whole was running about 8% ahead of last year: 2,543 cases since the disease year began April 1, as against 2,361. Local health officers were reporting suspected cases more conscientiously than ever, possibly in hopes of winning allocations of gamma globulin. In fact, the polio season was turning into a gamma globulin season...
...Association of American Physicians (dubbed, willy-nilly, "the Old Turks") heard about a new disease with a name like a Greek railway station: agammaglobulinemia. This is the condition which exists, said Dr. Charles A. Janeway of Harvard Medical School, when a patient lacks his natural share of gamma globulin, the immunity-carrying element in human blood. So far, all such patients have proved to be male...
...days will show whether tubercle bacilli are present. The current method with cultures or guinea pigs takes four to six weeks. ¶ Polio struck early at Prairie Village, Kans. (pop. 9,500), and, with eight cases reported, the Office of Defense Mobilization allocated 1,000 cc of scarce gamma globulin. Not all exposed children got the shots; injections were given instead to every third or fourth youngster on lower-grade-school rosters. In all, there was enough G.G. for only 117 shots, but most parents of passed-over childrcn took it gracefully...
...called Protein Foundation Inc., with Chester I. Barnard, onetime telephone tycoon (New Jersey Bell) and later head of the Rockefeller Foundation, as chairman. Much of its work will involve patents taken out by Biochemist Edwin J. Cohn, the world's top authority on blood fractions, relating to gamma globulin and methods of collecting and preserving blood substances...
...Corser '54, will get under way today. The goal. is 2500 pins of blood to be donated by students and citizens is the Cambridge area. This goal is 400 pints more than has ever been collected in drives anywhere in the United States. Because of the use of gamma globulin in the fight against polio, the Red Cross needs one million pints more than last year...