Word: serums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...side by side with their skeletons for comparison. Leon Whitney, authority on genetics, is in charge of the collection and already has skulls of the black and tan, Newfoundland, Irish Wolfhound, and entire skeletons and skins of the Cocker Spaniel, French Bulldog, bloodhound. Latest arrival was Togo, a husky serum-courier of Nome who, doddering with age, was sent to New Haven to be stuffed for posterity...
...Swedish Alfred Bernhard Nobel's posthumous Prize-giving began in 1901. Emil von Behring (1854-1917), German, won the first Prize in Medicine for his discovery that the serum of an immunized person will confer immunity against the same disease on another into whom it is injected (Behring...
...last month), the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, the New York League of Women Voters.* Disclosed for the first time last week to the general U. S. public was the fact that Russian experimenters have successfully inoculated women against pregnancy. Four or five doses of serum made from spermatazoa has made women infertile for from five to six months, when further injections continued the temporary sterility. Chief mover of last week's conference was Mrs. Frederick Robertson Jones, wife of a famed Manhattan insurance economist. She has been president of the Ameri- can Birth Control...
...physiology for more than a generation. Among his fundamental contributions are origin of the red corpuscles of the blood, degeneration and regeneration of the nerve fibres, mechanism of sleep, relation of the inorganic salts of the blood to the heart beat, coagulation of blood, proteins of blood serum...
...Poincaré led all the rest with 10,110 votes. Second and third on the list were Mme. Marie Curie (radium) and Marshal Joffre. Others in the first ten were Aristide Briand, Georges Clémenceau, Marshal Pétain, Cinema Inventor Louis Lumière and Dr. Pierre Roux, discoverer of diphtheria serum...