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...that the Elders were unpatriotic. The Constitution of the Commonwealth was framed in the old meeting house, and the General Court convened there, until a small-pox epidemic drove the austere legislators away. During the Revolution a provincial congress appeared in the church, and Lafayette himself smiled benignly from the Commencement platform in 1824. But the glorious days of the meeting house were about to end. A schism between Unitarians and Trinitarians resulted in the abandonment of the church by both parties...
What the trio, under the direction of Enders, had done was select a well-known method of cultivating chicken pox viruses and apply that method to isolating and growing the polio virus. But they had made one important change over previous attempts to grow the virus in a test-tube. It was what Zinsser would have called that last "step across to accomplished discovery." Unlike their predecessors, they had used human skin tissue-instead of nerve tissue-on which to grow the disease. Original as their final step may have been, the three associates regard their success...
Enders and Weller did know, however, that at least one virus chicken-pox-had bten grown in a test-tube. And the polio virus, was, they noted, similar in many ways to chicken-pox...
...culture material. But, as there seemed to be strong evidence that polio grew in the body as well as the brain, the two men decided to try to grow the virus on ordinary human skin cells. This reasoning seemed to be a logical step, especially since the chicken-pox had been grown with human tissue...
...vaccine. But to Connecticut-born John Enders, the polio virus discovery is an incident in a life dedicated to battle against the minutest and most insidious of man's microbial enemies, the viruses. To find better ways of combating such children's diseases as mumps, measles, chicken pox and polio, it was necessary first to find better ways of growing the offending viruses in the test tube. The polio virus was an especially bad actor: it seemed willing to grow only in brain or nerve tissue of men or monkeys, and any vaccine prepared from such a growth...