Word: rin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stimulate Seals sale and to report to the medical profession, Dr. William Hallock Park, director of the New York City department of health's bureau of laboratories, last week announced: "There is good reason to believe that the Calmette-Guérin vaccine has been effective in giving protection against tuberculosis...
Continuing the researches of his great preceptors, Dr. Calmette with his associate C. Guérin, a veterinary surgeon, discovered that the descendants of the tuberculosis bacillus, bred for many generations in ox bile and glycerine, lost their virulency but could establish immunity in young animals against potent tuberculosis germs. In their experience the vaccine must be fed to an infant who has been exposed to the disease during its first ten days of life. Later it may be given hypodermically. It is powerless to cure, but has undoubtedly prevented tuberculosis...
...Calmette-Guérin vaccine that Manhattan's Dr. Park referred last week. The U. S. profession has been skeptical of its value, although Drs. Calmette and Guérin have tested it with apparent success on more than 100,000 French infants. Rumanian, German, and English experience have confirmed the discoverers' assertions and experience. Because of his ascendancy in U. S. bacteriology, Dr. Park's approbation, although limited, made the Calmette-Guérin vaccine a U. S. therapeutic currency...
Frozen Justice (Fox). Melodramas like this, arranged against backgrounds of snow and wintry seas, have been fine vehicles for that smart dog, Rin Tin Tin. Lenore Ulric is nicer to look at than
...Rin Tin Tin, but it would be hard to find a story that made less use of her talents. After a white trader has persuaded her to run away from her Eskimo husband she sings for a while in a ginmill in Nome, Alaska. The girls in the ginmill pick the customers' pockets but speak with horror of a friend of theirs caught smoking. They dislike Ulric because she is a half-caste trying to push her way "to white man's country, where Talu's white blood forever calls her." The local color weighing down Frozen...