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...babies under six months catch measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria or infantile paralysis. Why, asked Drs. Charles Fremont McKhann Jr. & F. T. Chu of Harvard's pediatrics department...
...blood or milk. But there are arguments against that conception. A more tenable theory: the rapidly multiplying fetal and infant cells may establish a general protection called ''tissue immunity." If so, opined Drs. McKhann & Chu, the placenta (afterbirth) must contain substances which would prevent measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria and infantile paralysis in older children. With this idea they made some water extracts of after-births...
First they proved on guinea pigs, rabbits and themselves that the placental extracts were not poisonous and caused no sex derangements. Then on guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys they demonstrated that the extract neutralized diphtheria toxin and infantile paralysis virus, and caused scarlet fever rashes to blanch. By good fortune 15 children who never had had measles were exposed to measles in Drs. McKhann & Chu's hospital. Ordinarily every one of them would have caught it. So the doctors took a small risk by injecting each child with the placental extract. Fourteen children showed no signs of measles...
Blushes stained the cheeks of Guards officers and Scotland Yard officials royal scarlet last week. At Windsor Castle, Guardsman Harris of Edward of Wales's own Welsh Guards was court-martialed for falling asleep at his post while the King and Queen were in residence! "I felt ill, sir." said Guardsman .Harris, "and everything went black-like in front of me." At Buckingham Palace sneak thieves sneaked into the Royal Mews and stole from the hooks where it hung the solid gold bosses, buckles, and bangles that glitter on the scarlet leather harness of the eight horses that pull...
...under ordinary atmosphere. New generations developed in seven to ten days and accelerated efforts to produce immunization agents. Eventually the investigators hope to devise a skin test for leprosy which will make detection of that disease as simple and as certain as the present skin tests for tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever...