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...graduate study abroad, Dr. Williams joined the city's laboratory staff in 1895. One year later she made her first important contribution to preventive medicine - the discovery of a strain of diphtheria bacillus which produced an extremely virulent toxin. It made possible mass production of the anti-diphtheria serum which has nearly banished that dis ease from the world. Dog-bite victims once had to wait ten awful days to know if they had contracted rabies. In 1904, Dr. Williams and an Italian investigator discovered, simultaneously but independently, the bodies in the animal's nerve cells which apparently...
...statement to the CRIMSON yesterday, Dr. Paul H. Means '17, the Medical Adviser, announced that the Hygiene Department has a supply of placental extract on hand for inoculation against measles. This extract is a human preparation, so that there is no serum reaction, the only noticeable effect being a slight soreness of the arm. The extract, which is rich in anti-bodies, will prevent the disease if administered within four days after exposure, and will materially weaken the attack if given within six days...
...Kramer anti-poliomyelitis vaccine is a mixture of immune serum (from a person who has had an attack of the disease) and active infantile paralysis virus. The serum renders the virus harmless, and the product creates immunity in vaccinated monkeys. It is useless in treating an attack of poliomyelitis or curing the consequent paralysis, but seems likely to prove an authentic preventive...
...Stone's work endures because he acclimatizes tissues before he fixes them in their new home. To acclimatize new gland tissue, Professor Stone takes a quantity of the patient's blood, drains out the serum. The serum, placed in proper containers under proper conditions, becomes a culture medium in which the gland tissue to be grafted is placed. The gland tissue gradually becomes accustomed to the serum, and thus to the biological character of its owner-to-be. When Dr. Stone finally fits a thyroid or parathyroid graft into a new body, the graft suffers no shock, takes...
Declared Dr. Kendall Emerson, managing director of National Tuberculosis Association: "Evidence is lacking that the findings presented will have any value in providing a serum or cure for tuberculosis. It must be kept well in mind that laboratory experiments are not always borne out in human experience...