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Clement Malin of Dartmouth was the only Ivy League lacrosse player named to the first string All-American team. John Pendergast of Yale and John Petersen of Princeton placed on the second string squad...
This invitation to experts to change their beliefs about mechanisms of im munity was offered by Drs. William E. Petersen and Berry Campbell, who have been working on it (with a dozen colleagues off and on) for ten years. Paul ("Magic Bullet") Ehrlich had shown that antibodies, missing from the blood of calves at birth, can pass to the young in the dam's colostrum. It had been thought that the human species, whether babe or grown man, was unable to pick up these protective antibodies. Not so, say Petersen and Campbell: man and a slew of barnyard beasts...
...blast. They injected as many as eight kinds of bacteria into the udder at one time and got no evidence of interference among different antibody assemblies. Viruses seemed to work about as well; so did some bigger parasites and even plant pollens that might cause allergic reactions. Say Researchers Petersen and Campbell: "The range of antigenic material to which the cow's udder will respond seems limitless...
...however, the protective power of milk antibodies has not been clearly proved in the case of normal diseases of animals, let alone humans. Unfortunately, also, the protection with which Petersen and Campbell hope to spike their milk is sharply limited. It depends on passive immunity-the kind conferred by shots of gamma globulin against measles and possibly polio. Only active immunity (from the disease itself or direct vaccination) is lasting; passive immunity will wear off in a few weeks at most, after the intake of bovine antibodies stops...
...keep it up, a man might have to drink a quart of milk every day of his life. It is no accident that the American Dairy Association has financed Researchers Campbell and Petersen...