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...rumors, that able Academy director sat down last week and wrote to every editor he knew: "May I emphatically deny . . . that I have become interested in Dr. Koch's cancer cure, and that I have promised to aid in having a demonstration of Dr. Koch's cancer serum made on 1,000 cancer sufferers? These statements are entirely without foundation, and whoever is propagating them is doing gross violence to the truth...
Last week Professor Fred Edmund D'Amour, University of Denver zoologist and physiologist, sent the cheery message to vineyardists and tomato croppers that he has devised a serum against the black widow's poison. The poison causes spasms, high fever, nausea, vomiting, unconsciousness, occasionally death. Treatment has been to relieve pain by narcotics, to relieve spasms by hot baths, to support strength with whiskey...
...inventing his serum, Professor D'Amour mildly poisoned rats with small doses of black widow venom. Eventually the rats became immune to the venom. Serum from the blood of the rats cured a vineyard worker three hours after a black widow...
That discovery accelerated the search for a vaccine which could immunize children against infantile paralysis. Blood of persons who have survived the disease contains invisible substances called antibodies which neutralize the virus. Hence they are immune. When serum from such blood is injected into a child's veins, the child also becomes immune...
...health officers cannot well go around bleeding adults who have had the disease to obtain the base for a serum to immunize a whole community's children. In the long hunt for a more practical serum none has been more assiduous than Dr. William Hallock Park, longtime director of the research laboratories of New York City's Department of Health...