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...urine of other patients with similar tumors, as well as their blood serum, produced the same result in pregnant rabbits...
...October the French Academy of Sciences officially recognized Pasteur's serum, and hostile criticism melted before the warm rush of praise that greeted the scientist from all over the world. Hundreds of persons who had been bitten by mad dogs rushed to his laboratory, and a public international subscription was opened to build larger quarters. Thousands of francs poured in, and in 1888 President Sadi Carnot of France, surrounded by a brilliant throng of cheering scientists, opened the Pasteur Institute. But the new Institute came too late to the old genius who had! suffered taunts and gibes...
...Plotz has been head of a large laboratory, but has drawn no salary. Although this is exceptional, all Institute scientists receive very low salaries, for the Institute's income barely supports it. Dr. Plotz, who proved that measles is a virus disease, is now working on a measles serum, recently developed a new modern type of smallpox vaccination. He works in the laboratory of the late famed Biologist Elie Metchnikoff, who received a Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work on immunity. > Professor Gaston Ramon, square-built, square-bearded son of a farmer, who lives surrounded by 400 horses...
...Calmette's vaccine was challenged when 76 vaccinated German children died of tuberculosis. Investigation proved that the serum was harmless, that the deaths were due to negligence of hospital employes...
...Leota Hayden in Chicago's Ravenswood Hospital. After the operation Mrs. Hayden needed a blood transfusion. She had Type IV blood; therefore the donor's blood had to be of the same type. Transfusions of Types I, II, or III blood would clot in her serum, block her circulation...