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Several years ago, with Dr. Ralph Edward Otten, Dr. Bernstine prepared a vaccine from germs found in the vaginal tract of puerperal fever victims. He tried the vaccine out on hundreds of mice, then on a large group of nonpregnant women, to make sure it was not dangerous. "Aside from...
Each woman was given gradually increasing amounts of vaccine every four days, from five to 29 times. At delivery, not one woman came down with puerperal fever.
Though overworked army surgeons in World War I had to work thus, with a lick & a promise, great were the medical lessons they learned. Brilliant U. S. Neurologist Harvey Gushing, confronted with crowding thousands of head wounds such as he had never seen before, devised a dozen new brain operations...
*In Milwaukee last week a Wisconsin dentist, Dr. T. A. Hardgrove, gave it as his opinion that pockets of typhoid germs are responsible for tic douloureux, said he had tried typhoid vaccine with success.
* In 1931 Calmette's vaccine was challenged when 76 vaccinated German children died of tuberculosis. Investigation proved that the serum was harmless, that the deaths were due to negligence of hospital employes.