Word: lappin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City still enjoyed good health. So far, its cases of flu had been only slightly above average. Busiest physician in the city was Dr. Frank Lappin Horsfall of the Rockefeller Institute whose new vaccine is being tried on thousands of human guinea pigs throughout the U. S. When given during an epidemic, or just before, it apparently confers no protection...
Recently Dr. Frank Lappin Horsfall Jr. of the Rockefeller Institute made a vaccine from Influenza A and the virus which causes distemper in dogs. He hopes it will confer immunity for at least three months from all types of flu. Last week a test group of doctors and nurses in Los Angeles County General Hospital volunteered for vaccination. About 100,000 persons in selected communities throughout the U. S. have also been vaccinated. The next few weeks may provide a sure test of the vaccine, for the epidemic, already waning in the West, seemed to be moving east at week...