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...whole Iranian army has been vaccinated-against typhus fever. The ambitious project is the work of a U.S. Army surgeon, Colonel Abraham Neuwirth, who has been tackling one unprecedented epidemiological problem after another at Teheran...
When chunky, fast-talking Dr. Neuwirth reached Iran last May to become medical adviser to the Government, swarms of Polish refugees from Russia were pouring into the country-unwashed, lousy, probably infected with typhus. Iranians feared an epidemic. At Teheran's Pasteur Institute, Dr. Neuwirth taught Iranian technicians to manufacture typhus vaccine by the new Cox egg-culture method.* Dr. Neuwirth vaccinated thousands of Iranians where typhus threatened, induced the Government to order compulsory vaccination of the whole army-some 200,000 soldiers. (No vaccine against typhus gives sure-fire protection, but vaccination helps...
...Bagdad boils." On leishmania vaccine, Dr. Neuwirth ran into a new difficulty. Iran is not rich in chickens, and he could not find enough eggs to make the quantities of leishmania vaccine he needed. So he ground up chick embryos, watered them down with a saline solution and added this to an ordinary culture medium. The vaccine develops nicely in this egg-stimulated solution, and a few eggs go a long way. Dr. Neuwirth is now testing his leishmania vaccine on 200 Iranian moppets, hoping if the treatment succeeds to save thousands from death or disfigurement...
...salt water from glands) if a person passes from a cold to a warm room. The additional liquid is provided by nature so that the blood may not become too thick through the loss of water by perspiration.-H. G. Barbour, W. F. Hamilton, M. H. Dawson, I. Neuwirth, University of Louisville...