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Frank A. Vanderlip: " I returned to New York from California in perfect health. Insulin, new serum for diabetes, has given me an appetite like a hired man. And I can look rare beef and boiled potatoes squarely in the face...
...prevent tuberculosis from claiming those who would formerly have been its prey. Dr. Wassermann's method-he refuses to call it a discovery-is the result of long research based on the groundwork of American and French investigators, during which he tried out more than 500 different serums. He gives credit to the United States for first rank in the world-wide fight against consumption. Most human beings carry the tubercle bacillus in their systems from early childhood, but the majority are able to throw off the disease through their natural powers of resistance. Others fail to develop this...
...prominent Philadelphian suffering from sleeping sickness completely recovered after several injections of the Mayo serum for the disease, administered by Dr. John A. Kolmer, professor of bacteriology in the University of Pennsylvania and a director of the Research Institute for Cutaneous Medicine. The paralysis which usually follows encephalitis has not developed. The serum was discovered by Dr. E. C. Rosenow, of the Mayo Laboratories, Minnesota. Although the new remedy has not been proved to be a conclusive cure, it offers hope that the present outbreaks of the disease in New York and Philadelphia may be successfully combatted...
...usually present in these puzzling respiratory diseases, and it is not clear that the new organism is the invariable causal agent of influenza, though it is believed that it produces conditions in the lung tissues which facilitate the onset of pneumonia and other complications. No specific vaccine, or serum has yet been devised to combat the bacterium, nor has the work been confirmed by other observers. We are still a long way, therefore, from scientific control of epidemic influenza...
...marked by similar sacrifices, the acts of heroes most of whom have suffered in obscurity and silence, and who have usually been neglected in the records of heroism. The story of the voluntary victims to malaria, who allowed the disease to run its course with them so that a serum could be found and the tropics made safe for white men, was one of the first to become widely known. But there have been many like it--surgeons who have experimented on their own bodies, chemists who have labored fearlessly under imminent risks from fumes or explosives, finally these numerous...