Word: serum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their vigilance. The street-ends of the infected district were barricaded with ropes, guards were posted, armed with short shotguns, to enforce the quarantine. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appropriated $25,000 to combat the epidemic, appointed a special committee of experts to organize the measures. A serum, manufactured in Philadelphia, was rushed to Los Angeles by Transcontinental Air Service. The shipment contained more than 500 doses, enough, it was thought, to meet the present emergency. Four more deaths occurred, bringing the total to 30. Of these new fatalities, two were men who contracted the distemper while working...
...those times fifteen players constituted a team, divided into forwards, half-back and backs. The ball was put in play in a "serum" and the whole game, in fact, was typical English Rugby. Harvard won that game...
Another American doctor is reported to have discovered a truth serum, scopolamin-apomorphia, whose use makes it impossible to lie or cheat. Whether or no, the truth will out. Both of these discoveries point the same way. Gamaliel Bradford sees the end when he writes...
Prof. Emil yon Behring, of the Univ. of Halle-Diptheria serum, reducing that mortality rate...
Prof. Pasteur, of the École Normale, Paris−Serum inoculation, destructive to plagues...