Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idlewild Airport and trucks carried them 700 miles to Okatie Farms in South Carolina. There the rhesus monkeys from India were caged with other hordes of "Java" (Cynomolgus) monkeys from the Philippines, to be used as ammunition in a great battle now being fought by medical science. The enemy: polio...
Another delegation pounced upon Philip and presented him with a cricket bat and a pair of crutches. Later the Duke and Queen Elizabeth II, both inoculated as a precaution with some of the first Australian-produced gamma globulin, went by train to northern Victoria, where a polio outbreak has cropped...
...Given to family contacts, G.G. had no effect either in preventing paralytic polio or in moderating its course...
...standoff on the second point meant little, because if mass inoculations had been highly effective, the fact would have been apparent. After studying the report, one authority had a crisp suggestion: forget about gamma globulin for polio and turn it over to the states for use against measles and hepatitis...
...through Paul Mangelsdorf, he has helped develop hybrid corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented the iron lung, developed a treatment for pernicious anemia, and through the work of Bacteriologist John Enders, laid the groundwork for a safe polio vaccine. One scientist, the late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Oct. 12), made the blood bank possible; another, Chemist Robert Woodward, developed a theory that may lead to the synthesis of terramycin and aureomycin...