Word: kolmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee, before the American Public Health Association, Professor John Albert Kolmer of Philadelphia declared: "Up to the present time between 10,000 and 12,000 children have been immunized with my vaccine [virus weakened with a castor oil derivative]. No case receiving the full three doses has developed poliomyelitis. However, eight patients who had only one or two doses did contract the disease, indicating what I have long believed, that one or two vaccinations are insufficient...
...infantile paralysis were detected throughout the nation last week suggested that the incidence of that disease will be low this summer. However, health officers and bacteriologists are keeping close, special watch for outbreaks in New York City and Philadelphia. Those communities are significant because in Philadelphia Dr. John Albert Kolmer and in Manhattan Dr. Maurice Brodie have perfected serums against the virus which causes infantile paralysis (TIME, Nov. 26 et ante). They accomplished their work too late last year to try out their serums against any significant epidemic, are ready for eventualities this summer...
Invention continues. Last autumn Dr. Tohn Albert Kolmer of Philadelphia and Drs. William Hallock Park and Maurice Brodie of Manhattan announced vaccines against infantile paralysis. Last month Dr Albert Paul Krueger of the University of California announced a vaccine against the common cold...
There was nothing startlingly new about Professor Kolmer's method of combating infantile paralysis. Practically the same procedure of immunization is used by Professor Maurice Brodie of New York University (TIME, July 16). What set Professor Kolmer apart from other laboratory experimenters was his public certainty that he had found something worth while. So sure was he of his work that he injected himself with his devitalized vaccine early this summer when, if he was susceptible to infantile paralysis, he might logically have acquired the disease...
...prevent the disease will remain theoretical until a large community of children receive injections before the infantile paralysis season reaches its peak in summer. If the incidence of the disease then shows a marked drop below normal, all humanity may have good reason to salute Professor John Albert Kolmer...