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Just 50 years ago this coming July Pasteur first used a vaccine on a human being. It was rabies vaccine, which Pasteur administered to Joseph Meister an Alsatian child chewed by a mad dog. The boy recovered, and bacteriologists began to invent vaccines, the moment they dicovered the cause and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Another Vaccine | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

When an attack of typhus is mild it probably is due to the bite of a rat-flea. In human blood rat-typhus virus may be transformed, by ways which bacteriologists have not discovered, into human-typhus virus which in turn is transmitted by lice in a much more virulent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plague No. 1 | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

To make certain that the long-sought vaccine was not harmful to humans, Drs. Park, Brodie and laboratory associates vaccinated themselves. Unharmed by their experiment, they decided to make the ultimate test on children. Two dozen were vaccinated, with their parents' consent.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Preventive | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Park announced that, as he had anticipated, the two dozen were utterly unharmed by Dr. Brodie's vaccine and, according to monkey tests, definitely immune to infantile paralysis. At once he inoculated four dozen more children. Periodically during the next year he will test the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Preventive | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

Front pages loudly proclaimed that at last infantile paralysis could be prevented, perhaps some day stamped out altogether. Parents flocked to Dr. Park for vaccine, and old fears subsided in many a home. But, as usual, there was a practical hitch in last week's good news: the expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Preventive | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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