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...patient's strength. In four or five days the fever usually abates. The patient then is given blood from a survivor of the disease-by direct transfusion, by a hypodermic injection into the muscle of a buttock, or in the form of blood serum. Professors Howard Anderson McCordock and Walter Joseph Siebert of Washington University, who led in developing this blood treatment, last week admitted that they do not yet know whether it does any good. But they do not know anything else to do, and are hopeful...
...only scientific fact known about this disease is that it is caused by a specific virus. This was ascertained during the 1933 epidemic by one of the most vigorous and concentrated attacks on a disease ever made by Medicine. Immediate discoverers of that virus were Dr. McCordock; Dr. Charles Armstrong, virus expert of the U. S. Public Health Service; Dr. Leslie Tillotson Webster of Rockefeller Institute; Dr. Ralph Stewart Muckenfuss, then of St. Louis, now director of New York .City's famed Bureau of Laboratories...
...Smith, 36, is a Johns Hopkins graduate, small, shy and darkly attractive. When newshawks besieged her day after the announcement of her discovery, she made Dr. McCordock answer most of their questions. He carefully explained that she had not, as the Press first leaped to announce, isolated the virus of the disease. She had simply demonstrated the presence of a virus. To establish that it was the virus of encephalitis, it would have to be isolated and passed through a series of animals. If these developed the disease's symptoms, then would come the work of producing a serum...
...midst of this strenuous activity Dr. Margaret Gladys Smith, assistant pathologist at Washington University School of Medicine, strolled into the laboratory of her superior, Dr. Howard Anderson McCordock, and casually picked up some slides of kidney tissue from dead encephalitis victims. Dr. Smith popped the slides under a microscope...
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