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Last summer the nation was excited by the invention of two vaccines to protect children against infantile paralysis (TIME, July 16; Aug. 27). There remained to be invented a simple, speedy way of finding out what children are susceptible to infantile paralysis and therefore need such vaccine.
Last week, in ample time for the regular summer season of infantile paralysis, Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan, one of the vaccine inventors, disclosed a simple, speedy test of a child's susceptibility to the disease. A mouse and a special filtrate, which any careful bacteriologist can make with...
Since there is a dandruff germ, the disease must be catching, Drs. Moore & Kile imply. Someone may invent a vaccine against it. Meantime if any of the 165 manufacturers of hair tonics supposed to eradicate dandruff can prove that their stuff actually reaches and kills Pityrosporum ovalis, they should do...
Invention continues. Last autumn Dr. Tohn Albert Kolmer of Philadelphia and Drs. William Hallock Park and Maurice Brodie of Manhattan announced vaccines against infantile paralysis. Last month Dr Albert Paul Krueger of the University of California announced a vaccine against the common cold.
And last week Professor Lloyd Derr Felton of Harvard went to Johns Hopkins Medical School, where once he studied and taught, to say that a pneumonia vaccine which he invented seemed to be valid. He had given the vaccine to 3,000 people, including himself. Not one had developed pneumonia...