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...William Hallock Park, bacteriologist for the City, State and Nation in the Manhattan area and mainstay of the city's health activities, declared that serum taken from the blood of people convalescing from infantile paralysis was not especially valuable in preventing the disease in others. Said he: "We found that the percentage of cases which developed the paralytic symptoms was about the same as in the cases in which the serum was not used. No harm resulted from the treatment. But it was apparent that no benefits resulted...
...plane rushed from San Francisco to Los Angeles last week with serum for Actor Mix, 51, who lay dangerously ill of peritonitis following an appendectomy...
...bacillus which causes human tuberculosis is not the same bacillus which causes bovine tuberculosis. Children were frequently infected by the bovine type, through milk. Pasteurization of milk, that is, heating it as Pasteur heated wine to prevent spoilage, blocked that contamination. At Harvard he, among many other things, discovered serum sickness, which Paul Ehrlich called the Theobald Smithsche Phenomenon...
...body temperature above the germ-death heat by injecting fever-causing germs or nonspecific proteins, or by electricity. Dr. Sutton, having noted her patient's recovery from St. Vitus's Dance after a poison-produced fever, took a chance on another St. Vitus child by injecting typhoid serum. This second case grew feverish, sweated, recovered. She tried typhoid-paratyphoid serum on another. He too sweated and recovered. When she had cured 24 children of ugly St. Vitus's Dance with serums, she felt sufficiently confident to report, last week, her success...
First dog in the Whitney Collection was 0. B. Oilman's Idahurst Lofty, considered the best cocker spaniel in America. Nearby stands Bernice of White Isle, a near perfect bloodhound and Togo, Alas kan sled dog. Togo is the only non-champion admitted. He won fame sledging serum with Leonhard Seppala to diphtheria infected Nome (TIME, Feb. 9, 1925). Mrs. Kaare Nansen, the onetime Mrs. Edward P. Ricker, dog racer of Poland Springs, Me. gave Togo to the museum...