Word: serum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Hallock Park, bacteriologist for the City, State and Nation in the Manhattan area and mainstay of the city's health activities, declared that serum taken from the blood of people convalescing from infantile paralysis was not especially valuable in preventing the disease in others. Said he: "We found that the percentage of cases which developed the paralytic symptoms was about the same as in the cases in which the serum was not used. No harm resulted from the treatment. But it was apparent that no benefits resulted...
...statement aside as merely representing an opinion. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., State commissioner of health, sensing a controversy, protected himself thus: "In the absence of any better known method of combating infantile paralysis, the New York State Department of Health will continue to recommend the use of human serum unless its usefulness should be completely disproved...
...Park gave his belittling comment on convalescent serum a heartening companion comment. His staff had improved Dr. Marcus Neustaedter's technique of developing infantile paralysis serum in horses. The new horse serum protected monkeys from attack, "promises definite human immunization...
...plane rushed from San Francisco to Los Angeles last week with serum for Actor Mix, 51, who lay dangerously ill of peritonitis following an appendectomy...
...bacillus which causes human tuberculosis is not the same bacillus which causes bovine tuberculosis. Children were frequently infected by the bovine type, through milk. Pasteurization of milk, that is, heating it as Pasteur heated wine to prevent spoilage, blocked that contamination. At Harvard he, among many other things, discovered serum sickness, which Paul Ehrlich called the Theobald Smithsche Phenomenon...