Word: serums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body temperature above the germ-death heat by injecting fever-causing germs or nonspecific proteins, or by electricity. Dr. Sutton, having noted her patient's recovery from St. Vitus's Dance after a poison-produced fever, took a chance on another St. Vitus child by injecting typhoid serum. This second case grew feverish, sweated, recovered. She tried typhoid-paratyphoid serum on another. He too sweated and recovered. When she had cured 24 children of ugly St. Vitus's Dance with serums, she felt sufficiently confident to report, last week, her success...
First dog in the Whitney Collection was 0. B. Oilman's Idahurst Lofty, considered the best cocker spaniel in America. Nearby stands Bernice of White Isle, a near perfect bloodhound and Togo, Alas kan sled dog. Togo is the only non-champion admitted. He won fame sledging serum with Leonhard Seppala to diphtheria infected Nome (TIME, Feb. 9, 1925). Mrs. Kaare Nansen, the onetime Mrs. Edward P. Ricker, dog racer of Poland Springs, Me. gave Togo to the museum...
Infantile paralysis this year is mild; comparatively few deaths have resulted. So far as is known the disease is transmitted only from person to person. Nonetheless, health officials of affected communities have mobilized. In Boston the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission, functioning since 1916, was vigorously active, spotting cases, collecting serum. New York City appropriated $75,000 emergency funds. A battalion of orthopedic nurses was concentrated in Brooklyn to care for the anticipated cripples. Stations were set up to take blood from convalescents, best treatment for infantile paralysis...
...city, avoided their children upon returning home until after they had changed clothes and gargled. Child campers in New England, New York State, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were forbidden visitors from the city. City health authorities opened stations to take blood from convalescents from the disease. Convalescent blood serum is a remedy if used early enough. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "an aspirant for the presidency" in 1932, who was stricken by the disease in middle life, gave a pint of his blood. He did likewise...
...child shows such symptoms he should be put to bed and a doctor called. Serum can check the disease in its early stages. But if paralysis sets in, the disease will run its course. If the child does not die, much time and effort will be needed to re-educate its paralyzed muscles...