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...National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis decided to conduct its biggest test of an inoculation which may make polio milder if it strikes and save the victim from permanent paralysis. There is no evidence that it can prevent polio. The material to be inoculated is gamma globulin, a blood fraction which contains antibodies against several diseases (TIME, Nov. 5). Tried in Provo, Utah on a scale too small to be decisive (TIME, April 28), it is to be given this week to half of 35,000 Houston youngsters aged one to six; the other half-the "control group" -will get innocuous...
...newest and most hopeful weapons in the fight against polio is a blood fraction called gamma globulin. Doctors have known for several years that it is a rich storehouse of disease-fighting antibodies. They also know that injections of it will reduce the effects of measles in children. Now there is evidence that gamma globulin may be able to attack and destroy polio before it gets to the nervous system and wreaks its paralyzing effects...
...test of gamma globulin in a polio area was made in Utah last summer. Some 5,000 children were given injections of the blood fraction, and another 5,000 were not (TIME, Sept. 10). The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has never announced the results of that test because, it felt they were inconclusive. But this year the foundation is planning to spend close to $1,000,000 for a series of strictly controlled Utahs to learn more...
...main pool is 75 feet, 3/16 of an inch long--the extra fraction as added to make sure that all records made in it are legitimate ones. The walls and ceiling of the pool room are coated with a special plaster composition designed to kill the echoes usually found in such large tiled halls. Because many swimmers going in the same direction together set up great lateral water pressure, the pool is reinforced by bracings which extend to the outside foundations of the Blockhouse...
...recognize her family. Into her bloodstream the doctors injected a solution containing boron, a common, stable element with an atomic weight of 10. But under neutron bombardment, boron-10 changes to an excited boron-11, which lives about one-hundredth of a trillionth of a second. In that infinitesimal fraction of time before it decays to stable lithium, it shoots out alpha particles...