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...originally come from the spinal cord of children who had died of infantile paralysis. The monkeys promptly developed infantile paralysis. Professor Kolmer killed them, pulled out their spinal cords, ground them up with sodium ricinoleate. The resultant vaccine he injected into more monkeys, which thereupon withstood all efforts to infect them with infantile paralysis virus...
...other hand, if the depression deepens and the European crisis becomes still more acute, the League may be reduced to a group consisting of France. Poland and the Little Entente whose main object will be to preserve infect the Treaty of Versailles...
...devil-may-care Marney Lunn, who lives in complete domestic happiness with his wife Amy in a little cottage perched on a cliff over the sea. In its cozy interior the new fever makes its first subtle appearance. Restless, he goes off to the family "work-shop," tries to infect his father, his brother John with his disease. At first they are doubtful of such folly as to give up cod fishing for lobster potting in the middle of winter, but eventually Marney's visions of "tons of brass," and the challenge to outwit, outdare the Fosdycks wins them over...
Last week John H. Andrus, 50, of Camden, N. J., who has a Congressional Medal of Honor for letting the late Dr. Walter Reed infect him and 15 other soldiers with yellow fever in 1900 to prove that mosquitoes carry the disease, was admitted to Walter Reed Army Hospital at Washington. He is partially paralyzed...
From then on Emerson picked a careful way between the life of culture and the culture of life. The cranks besieged him. but he was impregnable. He continued to lecture far & wide. Far & wide he circulated, like a cultured bacillus, trying to infect the U. S. with some symptoms of a native civilization. He organized literary clubs, the Transcendental Club; with Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes. Agassiz, Dana he joined the Boston Saturday Club. He tried to introduce Whitman to his Boston friends but Lowell demurred?"a New York tough, a frequenter of low places." Finally his energies ran low; his memory...