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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stimulate Seals sale and to report to the medical profession, Dr. William Hallock Park, director of the New York City department of health's bureau of laboratories, last week announced: "There is good reason to believe that the Calmette-Guérin vaccine has been effective in giving protection against tuberculosis...
...Calmette-Guérin vaccine that Manhattan's Dr. Park referred last week. The U. S. profession has been skeptical of its value, although Drs. Calmette and Guérin have tested it with apparent success on more than 100,000 French infants. Rumanian, German, and English experience have confirmed the discoverers' assertions and experience. Because of his ascendancy in U. S. bacteriology, Dr. Park's approbation, although limited, made the Calmette-Guérin vaccine a U. S. therapeutic currency...
...Kitt's (St. Christopher Island, among the British West Indies), and patched it with deaths. Over the 65 square miles of the island grief croons. Trading ships scurry from the swash of the Caribbean against Basseterre. A sort of pestilence is on the people. Dozens have died. Last week a white man, Dr. J. J. Pawan, bacteriologist, reached there by Pan-American plane from Port of Spain, Trinidad, and found the deaths due to a filariasis...
...have codified that sentiment by prohibiting the marketing of unborn cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses.† There is no medical reason and no stringent religious injunction against such eating. Scarcity of slaughterhouse fetuses, Dr. Elijah Joseph Gordon, slight, swarthy, witty Professor of Medicine at Ohio State University, admitted last week, handicapped him in effecting the experimental cure of two anemia cases this year.** Ordinary liver has become remedy of choice for the anemias (TIME, Oct. 21). Hog stomachs are being tested. Neither of these affected Professor Gordon's cases. An ingenious ratiocinator, he figured that the younger liver...
Industrial accidents stimulated the demand. Post Graduate Hospital experienced some trouble in providing high-grade instruction. Across Manhattan was Reconstruction Hospital which specialized in such work. Nothing could be wiser than to merge the two institutions, decided their directors, a process which was going forward last week. Reconstruction Hospital will be, after Jan. 1, a unit of what will be formally, as always popularly, called Post Graduate Hospital...