Armstrong – Table of Contents
note since it could lead to confusion with tetanus. Varying degrees of limb paralysis was noted occasionally in some cases. The ...
years; however cases below one year or over 8 years seemed to be rare. Encephalitis appeared more commonly among girls, and seem ...
of the most careful investigation. The Public Health Service is anxious to learn of such cases should they occur and would be gl ...
first year of life and in which the susceptibility to postvaccination encephalitis is highest. Without committing ourselves as t ...
same is true of those tissues which constitute the defense mechanism, wherever and whatever they may be. It was therefore decide ...
tended to die later than the controls. These experimental results suggested a possible protective effect of prior diphtheria tox ...
infections differed in their ability to exercise the immune system; as an example, he noted that many of the common respiratory ...
postvaccination encephalitis was concerned. 4) Evidence was presented which suggested that inoculation with diphtheria toxoid te ...
accomplishments of the original investigators and do not record the historical antecedents of many “routine” day-to-day medical ...
Series of essays by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) describing the discovery and introduction of vaccination into the practice of medi ...
Armstrong, C.: Postvaccination encephalitis with special emphasis reference to prevention. Public Health Reports 47: 1553-1568, ...
Psittacosis (“Parrot Fever”) Charles Armstrong’s next major investigative challenge, which also became potentially life threaten ...
salmonella bacterium, and taxonomists labeled the organism B. psittacosis Nocard. Scientists recognized this organism as the cau ...
advice on psittacosis, deluged the desk of the Surgeon General. He turned the problem over to Dr. McCoy, Director of the Hygieni ...
Based on the initial early results of Armstrong’s investigation, on January 24, 1930, President Herbert Hoover (5) issued Execut ...
1930s except for a few centers such as the Rockefeller Institute (10). There seemed to be a cultural disdain among most early mi ...
presented an unforeseen dilemma inasmuch as the experimental work started by Armstrong was still far from completion. In a rare ...
he decided to try a desperate attempt to slow or reverse the process by using a method of unknown, unproven or questionable valu ...
rooms where the work was in progress, gradually became ill with psittacosis and required hospitalization. Including Armstrong an ...
sealed shut for what was to come next. McCoy had sent for the fumigation squad from the Quarantine Station at Baltimore, Marylan ...
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