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Margaret, Carnegie's only child, whom he called "Baba" and for whom he built Skibo Castle in Scotland, married Roswell Miller Jr. in 1919, when she was 22, he 24 and a Princeton undergraduate (Class of 1921). He was considered "an active man," theirs "a natural healthy union." They...
He had set up six air-conditioned hospital ships for sunstroke cases. He proceeded to inoculate every Italian to land at Massawa or Mogadiscio with the vaccine he himself had discovered in British employ for prevention of typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera. Sir Aldo shipped to East Africa tons of quinine...
In Milwaukee also was Manhattan's Dr. Maurice Brodie, who stated that none of the 8,000 children given his vaccine [virus killed with formalin] last summer had contracted infantile paralysis. He also stated that 8,000 trials were too few to prove the value of his vaccine.
Two eminent specialists in epidemic diseases uprose to throw strong doubt upon both the Kolmer and the Brodie concoctions. Dr. Thomas Milton Rivers of the Rockefeller Institute and Dr. James Payton Leake of the U. S. Public Health Service were especially perturbed by Dr. Kolmers preparation. They suspected that the...
Turning to Dr. Brodie. Dr, Rivers said that Brodie vaccine apparently was harmless, that he doubted its efficacy, and under no circumstances would testify for it before 100.000 children had been inoculated and undeniably protected from infantile paralysis by it.