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...announcement by Earl Ellicott Dudding, ex-convict of Huntington, W. Va., that his daughter Miss Chemical Dudding, conceived by injecting into Mrs. Dudding's veins a serum made from the leaves and sap of a cherry tree, would be born Nov. 15 (TIME, Oct. 30): an announcement by Ex-convict Dudding addressed to "my friends, interested and curious watchers, eyebrow lifters, I-told-you-so nonbelievers, and whatnot," stating that Miss Chemical Dudding would be stillborn. ''Now our prospective chemical baby sleeps in death. We are consoled by the thought that there is no fault...
Earl Ellicott Dudding explained that the "sporoblast" was a serum concocted from the leaves and sap of a cherry tree. He announced that he would start a chemical baby farm after Miss Chemical Dudding was born. Said he : "If I gave out the formula, half of the doctors in the country would start bootlegging chemical babies. They would use this as a money-making scheme, and I will not stand for that. I have developed this system after many years' research in an effort to pro duce a new race, free from sin and crime...
...Since the nerve cells controlling muscles are destroyed by this affliction, it cannot be hoped that a cure will be found after those cells have become seriously infected. Instead, some way must be found by which the occasional susceptible person can be made to resist the virus. Immune serum has already been used for early treatment; but the difficulty of experimenting on children, and of finding comparable untreated cases, has been a serious drawback in this investigation. It is known, however, that because of the mildness of early symptoms in some children, the disease would not be recognized...
...disease. She had simply demonstrated the presence of a virus. To establish that it was the virus of encephalitis, it would have to be isolated and passed through a series of animals. If these developed the disease's symptoms, then would come the work of producing a serum...
...coincided with the greatest influx of mosquitoes in St. Louis County history. Queerest theory advanced was that Catholic missionaries, some from Africa, convening in St. Louis last month had brought genuine African sleeping sickness. Autopsies on three victims showed the brain red and pressing down on the spinal column. Serum from the brain of one victim killed a monkey, left a rabbit unscathed...