Word: serums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with consequent danger to the community. Dr. Mayne. who learned all about mosquitoes in England. India. the Philippines and the U. S., found that by chloroforming them under a 20-power magnifying glass he could cut out their salivary glands in which lie the malarial organisms. Made into a serum, the malaria germs from one mosquito suffice to inoculate twelve paretics...
...white woman for limestone, black for coal, yellow for sand, red for iron ore. Critics rated the frescoes first-class, noted an increasing hardness and sharpness in Rivera's detail. Nearly overlooked was a little panel high on one wall, showing a child being vaccinated in a serum laboratory. In the foreground were serum-giving animals, a horse, a bull and sheep, traditional beasts of Holy Nativity pictures...
...after letting rat fleas feed on his leg, last year produced a vaccine efficacious against the mild, flea-borne typhus which occurs along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (TIME, Nov. 7, et ante). Harvard's Professor Hans Zinsser has been developing a vaccine and serum against the louse-carried, virulent type of typhus which constantly threatens to invade the U. S. from Eastern Europe and Mexico. Last week Harvard reported that the Zinsser serum works, that Mexican health authorities are inoculating the populace with Zinsser serum in hope of national prophylaxis...
...improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet fever germ and serum...
...rabbits with smears taken from Daisy Jost's throat & nose. Declared Dr. Rosenow: "This is the first time that tests in cases of sneezing have been conducted in this world, to my knowledge. We are hoping that we will find a streptococcus that causes sneezing, so that a serum may be devised to combat it." The infected rabbits sneezed, indicating that a germ made Daisy Jost sneeze. Dr. Rosenow's men decided that the germ was the same one responsible for sleeping sickness. Before they could attempt to make a serum, Daisy got well spontaneously...