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Word: weichselbaum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anton Weichselbaum (1845-1920) of Vienna isolated the specific germ, meningococcus, which attacks the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord and causes the disease. Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute perfected a serum which attacked the meningococci. That was in 1908. Mortality, which before 1908 had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meningitis Antitoxin | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

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