Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diphtheria...
Died. William Hallock Park, 75, specialist in the public health aspects of diphtheria, pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, sometimes called "the American Pasteur"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...many bacteriological discoveries, largely directly applicable to preventive medicine. Among the achievements of the Institute are development of a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis by Albert Calmette and Alphonse Guérin in 1921,* Emile Roux's and Alexandre Yersin's epoch-making work on the diphtheria bacillus, the typhus discoveries of Nobelman Charles Nicolle of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis, the syphilis and encephalitis investigations of Constantin Levaditi...
...late famed Biologist Elie Metchnikoff, who received a Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work on immunity. > Professor Gaston Ramon, square-built, square-bearded son of a farmer, who lives surrounded by 400 horses at the Institute's annex in Garches. He makes tremendous quantities of serums against diphtheria, bubonic plague, tetanus and other dread diseases. These serums are sold all over the world. Professor Ramon is famed as the man who developed diphtheria antitoxin, and the principle of multiple vaccination: immunization against several diseases with a single vaccination. > Dr. Ernest François Auguste Fourneau, master of chemical...
Died. Klaus Martin Einstein, 6, grandson of Dr. Albert Einstein, son of 34-year-old Hans Albert Einstein, hydraulic engineer in the U. S. Soil Conservation Service; of diphtheria, in Greenville...