Word: kolmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tests for syphilis. Victims of yaws, relapsing fever and leprosy always give a positive syphilis test. Victims of malaria sometimes do. And many a syphilitic, especially after a few injections of antisyphilitic drugs, gives a false negative reaction. Most reliable tests, the Committee on Evaluation announced, are Dr. John Kolmer's of Philadelphia, Dr. Reuben Kahn's of the University of Michigan, Dr. Benjamin S. Kline's of Cleveland...
Kindly, cultured Mr. Fels detests the word "philanthropist," but his good works have been many. He is a heavy contributor to peace groups, Jewish charities, medical and scientific research. He backed Dr. John A. Kolmer's infantile paralysis serum experiments, was on the Philadelphia Orchestra board until its reorganization last year, gave the planetarium at Franklin Institute. "I heard about planetaria, read about them, thought it would be well for Philadelphia to have one," he explained. "So I ordered...
From Washington Senior Surgeon James Payton Leake of the U. S. Public Health Service raised a loud clamor against the infantile paralysis vaccines developed in Manhattan by Drs. William Hallock Park & Maurice Brodie, in Philadelphia by Dr. John Kolmer (TIME, July 16, 1934 et seq.). Twelve children who received one or the other of the vaccines last summer rapidly contracted the disease. Of the twelve, six died. Said Dr. Leake: "I feel that the fact we found fatalities makes it advisable that we warn the public and physicians...
...Brodie and Kolmer protested that the dead children must have been exposed to infantile paralysis before getting full protective doses of their respective vaccines. Nonetheless. New York City's Department of Health stopped vaccinating children with the Park-Brodie serum. Smugly Keith Morgan, vice president of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, denied that his organization had supplied any money for the disputed infantile paralysis vaccines...
...eminent specialists in epidemic diseases uprose to throw strong doubt upon both the Kolmer and the Brodie concoctions. Dr. Thomas Milton Rivers of the Rockefeller Institute and Dr. James Payton Leake of the U. S. Public Health Service were especially perturbed by Dr. Kolmers preparation. They suspected that the weakened virus was still strong enough to cause infantile paralysis, and that Dr. Kolmer's explanation was not valid. Decided Dr. Rivers: "Time and circumstances make it imperative that Dr. Kolmer show his vaccine is absolutely safe...