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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...
...their command Drs. Thalhimer & Levinson have a supply of serum taken from the blood of Chicagoans recently recovered from scarlet fever. This serum ordinarily is used in the treatment of severe attacks of scarlet fever. Drs. Thalhimer & Levinson injected some into patients dying of Streptococcus haemolyticus infection. Only one out of five thus treated died. If scarlet fever serum is not available, the Chicago doctors recommend transfusion of whole blood from a suitable donor who has recently recovered from scarlet fever...
...prediction came true only two years ago when Dr. Harvey Brinton Stone of Johns Hopkins transplanted thyroid tissue from one patient to another. Theretofore all tissue transplants either invalided the patient or died after doing only temporary good. Dr. Stone succeeded because he first soaked the thyroid tissue in serum from the blood of the patient who was to receive it (TIME. Dec. 18, 1933). By doing that Dr. Stone followed fundamental procedures developed by Dr. Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute...