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...Weech, of the Johns Hopkins University, has found that the serum taken from the blood of those who have recovered from chicken pox, if injected into susceptible children, seems to prevent their catching the disease. Nine infants, who had been exposed to the disease, were given injections of the serum from one to six days after exposure. Eight of them did not contract the disease...
...Princeton's "Old Nassau" goes back only to 1756. Massachusetts faced the original Harvard Hall which was destroyed by fire in 1764, and was itself saved by the exertions of neighbors and the members of the General Court, which at the time was there meeting because of a small-pox epidemic in Boston. After the battle of Lexington the students were removed to concord, and there recited in the court house, the hall becoming a barracks for the Continental soldiers, while Wadsworth House, also still standing, became the headquarters of General Washington. In 1827 Massachusetts was renovated and remodelled...
...year 1764, Commencement exercises were omitted because of an epidemic of small pox, the custom being also unobserved during the period from...
...demonstrated the very great value of anti-typhoid inoculation in preventing typhoid fever, not only in the army but also in civilian population. The anti-typhoid inoculations are now regarded as much a part of the necessary equipment of those going to the war zone as vaccination against small-pox on a healthy body. All the members of the Harvard Unit that recently sailed for the American ambulance received the inoculations...
...greatest problem of all to be solved was that of sanitation, the problem that the French never solved. Through the wonderful work accomplished by Colonel Goethals, the death-rate, which in 1906 was 41 per thousand laborers, was reduced in 1908 to 13 per thousand. Yellow fever and small-pox, which had previously carried off thousands of men, were completed wiped out. The money expended in bringing about this reform will be $20,000,000 before the canal is finished, but it is estimated that already over 15,000 lives have been saved because of improved sanitary conditions...