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...Cornell will enter this year's meet as the defending champion, and naturally will be rated as a likely repeater after the form he showed in the indoor 70 yard championship. Russell was two-tenths of a second away from Wefer's record last year, but so were Bill Schick of Harvard in 1904 and Reidpath in 1912 and Woodring...
...Bela Schick, Austrian inventor of the "Schick tests" and the toxin-anti-toxin serum for diphtheria, learned last week that his serum could not be permitted to freeze...
...Schick test and serum continued to be used. The children were expected to recover fully...
Professor Zinsser corrected the error of Boston newspapers and of Mr. Henry D. Munn of the Medical Liberty League, in referring to the Schick test as the cause of the trouble. The serum originated by Dr. Bela Schick is used to determine the susceptibility of an individual to diphtheria, and has caused no sickness whatsoever. It is the preparation with which individuals known to be susceptible are immunized which has given sore arms to Concord and Bridgewater children...
...from growths of these bacteria apparently contains a toxin, and that it may be used for tests which will show whether or not a person is likely to become infected with scarlet fever on exposure to the disease. The test used is a specific skin test much like the Schick test that is used for testing immunity to diphtheria. Dr. W. Mair of London, who has spent many years on the study of scarlet fever, has been able to confirm the specific character of a test originally worked out by Schultz and Charlton in Germany. In that test a small...