Word: serums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kindly, cultured Mr. Fels detests the word "philanthropist," but his good works have been many. He is a heavy contributor to peace groups, Jewish charities, medical and scientific research. He backed Dr. John A. Kolmer's infantile paralysis serum experiments, was on the Philadelphia Orchestra board until its reorganization last year, gave the planetarium at Franklin Institute. "I heard about planetaria, read about them, thought it would be well for Philadelphia to have one," he explained. "So I ordered...
When Holtz had Howerth's laboratory burned down to get rid of a corpse that might be even uglier if found, Howerth risked his life to save his deadly but still beloved serum, and was blinded for his pains. When a sudden and fatal epidemic broke out in one of Holtz's destitute mining towns, the few who knew what Howerth had been up to began to suspect that Holtz had taken over the experiment. While Howerth and his assistants worked feverishly to find an antivirus for the plague, Holtz wiped out his human liabilities by the thousand...
Anna M. Pabst, 39, bacteriologist with the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington, was to read a paper at the New York meeting proving the impossibility of testing anti-meningitis serum on rabbits and guinea pigs. Night before her appearance she died of meningitis contracted when a guinea pig, into whose head she was injecting virulent meningitis germs, jerked out of her hands. The meningitis germs squirted into Miss Pabst's eye, sped to her brain, killed her in eight days, earned her a medical martyr's kudos...
...Brodie and Kolmer protested that the dead children must have been exposed to infantile paralysis before getting full protective doses of their respective vaccines. Nonetheless. New York City's Department of Health stopped vaccinating children with the Park-Brodie serum. Smugly Keith Morgan, vice president of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, denied that his organization had supplied any money for the disputed infantile paralysis vaccines...
...Fair Lawn, N. J., when someone stole the little white pig on which John Clauss conducts his experiments in pig medicine, Clauss advertised that the pig had just been inoculated with a poisonous serum, added. "I just want the people who took my white pig to know that my other pig is filled with poisonous serum...