Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atomic energy may soon successfully combat polio and other virus diseases, Professor Ernest C. Pollard, a Yale University physicist, recently announced. When atomic bullets are fired at viruses, antibodies, which are the defense mechanism of the human body, will be formed...
...Just behind the front lines in Korea, U.S. soldiers diligently hunted rabbits, rats and mice in an attempt to run down a virus or near-virus which has killed at least 25 of their buddies and made hundreds ill since June with...
...Shirley was almost completely paralyzed. But Shirley's father is Dr. Alvin C. Schopp, an orthopedist at St. Louis University and St. Anthony's Hospital. He had been searching for years for something that would help to give back vitality to nerves damaged by the polio virus. A new drug, Pyromen, had just come in for testing...
...Pyromen, there were as many deaths (seven) as there were among the others. Also, polio is so unpredictable a disease that doctors may easily be fooled, and credit a drug for a patient's natural improvement. But, says Dr. Schopp, this admittedly sketchy study indicates that Pyromen helps virus-ravaged nerves to rebuild themselves so that they can again assert control over the muscles...
...dedication ceremonies a year ago Cohn pointed out that "neither alcohol, very low temperature, drying equipment, nor radiation equipment for virus sterilization is necessary" to produce Stable Plasma Protein Solution which, he believes, "will replace serum albumin, dry plasma, and wet plasma...