Word: serums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Concord, Mass., 19 children, and at Bridgewater, Mass., 25 children, as a result of the serum developed swollen limbs, sore eyes, nausea. The serum had become congealed in transit from Washington to Boston. The vaccine is made by combining the diphtheria poison with its antidote in such a way as to produce immunity from diphtheria. The freezing separated some of the serum from its antidote, so that the mixture became "moderately poisonous...
...statement of both Professor Hans Zinsser of the Medical School, and Dr. Benjamin White, director of the division of the state Department of Public Health which issues the preparation, when a CRIMSON reporter asked them yesterday to discuss the dispute which has raged all week over the serum. The sickness of 60 school children in Bridgewater and Concord, and the decision yesterday of the Boston school committee to continue inoculation reached over the protests of the Medical Liberty League and others, have been the high points in the controversy...
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...
...White stated that the department will continue to issue material from its stocks with every precaution against low temperature. He pointed out that 600 people die of diphtheria in Massachusetts every year, needless deaths which can only be prevented by the use of the serum...