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¶ In Manhattan, people queued up by the thousands, sometimes in lines five blocks long, for vaccination. By week's end, despite a shortage of vaccine, more than 2,500,000 of the city's 7,500,000 had been vaccinated. The city had appropriated $600,000 for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Smallpox Scare | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

What can be done? UNRRA, the American Red Cross, Europe's handful of doctors have failed to stop the white plague's spread. This month one of Europe's smallest countries, Denmark, will launch a brave try. Its weapon: BCG vaccine (TIME, Nov. 11), which in Danish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The White Death | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

The vaccine will be available at the Department of Hygiene Building, 15 Holyoke Street, from 10 to 11:30 o'clock tomorrow and Friday and from 2 to 4 o'clock every afternoon except Saturday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University to Combat Influenza with Shots | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

What causes Hodgkin's disease and how is it carried? One school considers it a form of cancer, with the body's own cells getting out of control. In 1944, investigators found "inclusion bodies" (possibly indicating virus infection) in affected tissues. The discovery was important: if the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Borderline Disease | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

The investigation's long-range aim: to isolate the cold virus and develop a vaccine. Each guest, on admission, snuffs a fluid up his nose. About 45%, used as controls, snuff only a harmless broth; the rest get virus-containing nasal washings from people with colds. Only about one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Love & Sniffles | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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