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An all out drive by backers of oral, live-virus vaccines for the right to succeed the Salk killed-virus injections as the first line of defense against poliomyelitis reached the U.S. last week. Biggest offensive was launched in Miami and surrounding Dade County, where the entire under-40 population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One-Swallow Vaccine | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Paper Cup. From the skyscraper hotels and high-life restaurants of Miami Beach to country schools and community centers back in "the 'Glades," adults and children lined up from morning until night. It was all free. New York's Lederle Laboratories donated the vaccine. Physicians, nurses, and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One-Swallow Vaccine | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Even for the busy workers, everything was gratifyingly simple. The vaccine, colored the faintest of pinks by cherry flavoring, arrived in 1,000-cc. bottles (about a quart), enough for 500 doses. A nurse drew 2 cc. (half a teaspoonful) at a time with a bulb-type dropper, put it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One-Swallow Vaccine | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Adults and schoolchildren downed the mixture at a gulp. For infants, the vaccine was usually put in a plastic teaspoon, sterile from a fresh pack. The teaspoon was thrown away after use.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One-Swallow Vaccine | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

¶ After 14 years of negative results, despite the willingness of 6,000 human volunteers to catch cold for science, workers at Britain's famed Common Cold Research Unit (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) reported that they have isolated what appears to be three strains of common cold virus. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Feb. 8, 1960 | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

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