Word: serum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known means by which the disease is spread. To prevent this spreading, pasteurization should be employed. As for checking and curing the disease, Massachusetts and Vermont officials, cooperating with the Harvard Commission, believe they are on the road to success in abating infantile paralysis by the use of a serum made from the blood of human beings who have had the disease and have survived...
...Leon Herbert Martin, public health director at Fort Worth, en couraged doctors by reporting success with a serum treatment for infantile paralysis. The treatment consisted of injecting serum from a patient recently recovered from the disease into the bloodstream of a new case. In five cases treated, paralysis was stopped. But, because paralysis may develop long after a patient seems cured, the certainty of Dr. Martin's serum treatment cannot be yet affirmed...
...After-treatment is of the greatest importance. If properly treated, deformities may, to a large extent, be prevented. During the acute stage, massage and exercise should not be resorted to, but the paralyzed part kept in its normal position through splints. To such orthodox treatment, Dr. Martin's serum is an experimental adjunct...
Hearing of the apparently successful serum treatments in Texas, Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, onetime (1913-20) Assistant Sec retary of the Navy and Democratic candidate for vice president in 1920, who contracted infantile paralysis in the epidemic of 1922, but regained the use of his legs through warm mineral water treatments, revealed the formation of a Georgia Warm Springs Foundation which, with a fund of $75,000, has organized a special hospital at Warm Springs...
...Quincy, Mass., last week, one Benjamin F. Earl, argued that to inject anti-rabies serum into dogs was cruel and needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...