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...years the medical profession has politely raised its eyebrows and looked down its nose at Bacteriologist Edward Carl Rosenow. But Dr. Rosenow, a stubborn man, has persisted in his peculiar obsession. Says he: there is a strep-polio axis-somehow, in ways no doctor understands, streptococcus plays a malignant part in infantile paralysis. (A coccus is a round bacterium large enough to be seen with an ordinary microscope. A virus is so small it can be seen only with an electron microscope, has some bacteria-like and some protein-like qualities-no one knows for sure whether it is living...
...Daisy Jost's case the Mayo Clinic, urged by Daisy's physician, Dr. William Conrad George Henske, went to the rescue. Guided by Bacteriologist Edward Carl Rosenow, a zealot in finding new germs and new forms of old germs, the Mayo specialists infected rabbits with smears taken from Daisy Jost's throat & nose. Declared Dr. Rosenow: "This is the first time that tests in cases of sneezing have been conducted in this world, to my knowledge. We are hoping that we will find a streptococcus that causes sneezing, so that a serum may be devised to combat...
...Edward Carl Rosenow, professor of surgical bacteriology at the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Foundation, isolator of what is thought to be the cause of infantile paralysis, almost shouted: "We have just listened to the revelation of a great discovery. Dr. Kendall has found a way to make bacteria take on a new form. That in itself is a great accomplishment in a lifetime. The future will show the greatness of his contribution to science...
...occur this summer in mildly epidemic form, wise doctors are collecting serum from their convalescent patients-upon the advice of Dr. Simon Flexner of Manhattan. Rabbits and monkeys can now be immunized against infantile paralysis, by a vaccine perfected at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.-Dr. E. C. Rosenow...
...three years Drs. Felton and Rosenow at Harvard and Drs. Park and Banzhaf at the New York City Board of Health had worked to get the horse serum out of the final product. Finally they were successful. They developed a method of growing the antibodies in the horse, making the serum, then refining it until all the horse serum was removed, leaving only the helpful antibodies. The refined product is ten times as effective and has no dangerous after effects. There is only one place in Canada or the United States where this serum is prepared: the Board of Health...