Word: plotz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This flout in the face of fashion was, of course, made by a doctor: Dr. Milton Plotz of Brooklyn's Long Island College of Medicine. In the current American Journal of Diseases of Children he reports the case of a mother with 1) upswept hair and 2)a baby which had had eczema for all but the first two of its ten months of life. Observing that the rash was confined to those parts of the baby which would normally touch its mother's hair, he had a sudden hunch. A test on a clear patch...
Climaxing a 20-year search for a means to combat effectively typhus fever, Hans Zinsser, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; John F. Enders, assistant professor in the same field, and Dr. Harry Plotz, visiting research expert from the Pasteur Institute of Paris, announced yesterday in the publication, Science, the discovery of a new method making possible the production of enough vaccine to immunize an entire nation from the louse-carried scourge...