Word: payton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
...attending summer schools. President Roosevelt's good friend. Dr. Leroy Watkins Hubbard of the Warm Springs Infantile Paralysis Sanatorium, has gone from Georgia to help Epidemiologist Knox. as have Drs. Warren Palmer Dearing and Alexander Gordon Gilliam, infantile paralysis experts of the U. S. Public Health Service. Dr. James Payton Leake. best U. S. P. H. S. expert, was to be there this week...
...years ago on Long Island, Mrs Lucy F. Kirk, 54, was driving with her son Payton when their automobile collided with one driven by George Cisler The Cisler automobile was damaged. A doctor examined Mrs. Kirk, found her apparently seriously injured. A Christian Scientist, she declined medical attention summoned, instead, a paid healer to pray over her and read from Mary Bakei Eddy's Science & Health. Mrs. Kirk made what looked like a complete recovery but later she said she suffered from headaches, a pain in the nose and tremors of the left hand. She had made good money...
...announcement three weeks ago that three volunteers were allowing themselves to be bitten by mosquitoes to test whether the insects were the cause of St. Louis' encephalitis epidemic (TIME, Sept. 25): publication of the heroes' names- Dr. James Payton Leake, director of the investigations; Dr. Louis Laval Williams Jr., authority on the transmission of disease by insects; Dr. Bruce Mayne, English-born expert in malaria research. St. Louis Health Commissioner Joseph Francis Bredeck declared the epidemic over. Toll since July: over 1,000 cases, 194 deaths...