Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zinc sulphate spraying should be repeated for three consecutive days, then once every two weeks while danger of infantile paralysis prevails in the community. The treatment destroys the sense of smell for a few days and may cause headaches, but is otherwise undisturbing...
...huge molecule composed basically of nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, weighing 17,000,000 times as-much as a hydrogen molecule, and measuring one seven-hundred-thousandth of an inch in diameter; 2) that he had crystallized a typical virus (which causes mosaic diseases in tobacco plants) by chemical treatment; 3) that he had modified the virus molecule chemically and produced other types of plant disease; 4) that he had made the molecule inactive. All this proved, said Dr. Stanley, that "a virus is a protein molecule and as such may be regarded as non-living...
There remained, however, one grave doubt about Dr. Stanley's work. Did his chemical treatment of viruses alter them? The Rockefeller staff had the answer to that. But they waited until last week when the summer meeting of the A. A. A. S. at Denver (see p. 40) again gave them a big, public stage...
...Majesty's condition is held to be serious, but not the occasion for immediate alarm. We have verified the former diagnosis and approved the present treatment." Whereupon the foreign specialists who were to receive as fees $1,250 each and expenses, departed...
...into use all available facilities. For this effort, credit is due, but not credit for victory. For those outside there is no victory yet, not even the stop-gap consolation of House library, dining hall, and common room privileges. For them remains only the vague, unsatisfying hope for better treatment in the future...