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...spread, an allergist in Philadelphia raised the possibility that greatly reduced vaccine doses can supply adequate protection if injected into the skin instead of under it. Writing in Philadelphia Medicine, Dr. Louis Tuft of Temple University reports that, on the basis of limited experiments by Walter Reed's Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one-tenth the present dose given intracutaneously produces approximately the same antibody response as the present recommended dose given subcutaneously. Suggested reason: vaccine injected into the skin is absorbed more slowly, and cells have more time to respond...
...Tuft, who introduced a similar method with typhoid vaccine in 1931, recommends doses of of 1 cc. for adults, between 0.05 cc. and 0.02 cc. for children (v. subcutaneous doses of 1 cc. for adults, 0.5 to 0.2 for children...
...precise diction and always reacted to what others were saying around him, virtues which others in the cast might well emulate. Bobbitt would seem to be the most accomplished member of this summer's company, though he is not in a class with Lewis Palter, the star of Tuft's 1955 season. He still should work to eliminate his occasional stiffness of body or limbs...
...came Archie, his entourage six uniformed U.S. airmen and his only music the raucous booing of a home-town crowd. As Archie stepped through the ropes to shed his cerise-and-green cape along with his shimmering black-and-gold robe, his natty mustache and carefully trimmed imperial chin tuft quivered with scorn for the ill-mannered fans. He was more than ready...
...totals were: Harvard, 99; M.I.T., 95; Boston College, 80; Tuft, 75; Northeastern, 72; and Boston University, 63. Fred Brooks of M.I.T. took a flyer wide to the leeward in hope of picking...