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Besides these events to view with alarm, Messrs. Rockefeller, Fosdick and their fellow trustees had, however, one particular achievement at which they could point with pride: a vaccine to conquer yellow fever. From 1900 (when the late Dr. Walter Reed proved that a mosquito transmitted yellow fever from man to...
On the strength of this apparent success with Felton preventive vaccine, doctors in other CCC camps have inoculated 150,000 more men this winter, leaving a second 150,000 untreated. By doing so they will give Dr. Felton and other conservatives scientific evidence of the value of his vaccine.
So shy that he seems secretive, Dr. Lloyd Derr Felton of Johns Hopkins went to Philadelphia last week where he cautiously urged doctors not to use a vaccine which he developed as a pneumonia preventive* (TIME, Sept. 13) until he has better proof of its efficacy.
Last week, however, the Army Medical School, whose technicians Dr. Felton helped to make the vaccine by the gallon, reported that not one of 15,000 CCC men vaccinated last summer with Felton vaccine has yet developed pneumonia. Of another 15,000 men in the same camps, who were not...
Confining himself largely to the problems of Massachusetts, Dr. Russell reported that smallpox, once dreaded above all diseases, has now been beaten to a standstill. Thanks to universal application of the Jenner vaccine, introduced in 1800, the disease has very nearly disappeared from the State, the last small pox death...