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At Philadelphia zealous Temple University's zealous Professor John Albert Kolmer injected into the brains of monkeys virus which had originally come from the spinal cord of children who had died of infantile paralysis. The monkeys promptly developed infantile paralysis. Professor Kolmer killed them, pulled out their spinal cords, ground...
There was nothing startlingly new about Professor Kolmer's method of combating infantile paralysis. Practically the same procedure of immunization is used by Professor Maurice Brodie of New York University (TIME, July 16). What set Professor Kolmer apart from other laboratory experimenters was his public certainty that he had found...
Infected Rhesus monkeys supplied the material for the vaccine. Just as the monkeys were dying of infantile paralysis, Dr. Brodie killed them, snatched out their spinal cords which contained the virus of the disease, macerated the cords in a solution of formalin to kill the virus. This virtually is what...
In principle the vaccine should create antibodies in the blood of Dr. Park and friends. Their fortified blood should be able to destroy or neutralize living infantile paralysis virus. This means immunity.
The Press tried to make heroes of those who submitted to injections of the Brodie vaccine. Reporters flocked to the laboratories. Laughed old Dr. Park: "I had a good night's sleep and didn't even think about the injection. I got up this morning at 7:30...