SUCH SI WHY NP UPA BAY NR 7 « Prevent Noted Immunologist Hopes to Be Successful. Philadelphia. —A serum for the pre- vention of one of mankind's most dan- gerous ailments — pneumonia — is the new objective of Dr. John A. Kolmer, noted Immunologist, who has just dis covered what he declares to be the world's first successful vaccine against infantile paralysis. The energetic scientist, who heads the medical staff of Temple university here, made this disclosure after describing the unusual experiments which result ed In @evising the anti-paralysis vac cine, He said: “At present I am cure 8 serum for pneumonia. “I hope to be successful with it In the course of time.” The famed immunologist to disclose detalls ments. He, Instead, preferred to dis russ the research work he has already done on the successful anti-paralysis serum which he injected Into his own veins and those of a laboratory sistant. attempting to pro- the prevention of of his new experi as Preventative Measure. Doctor Kolmer stressed the fact that the vaccine Is entirely a preventative measure and Is in no way a cure for poliomyllitis after Infection sets In, The scientist explained he is now ready to attack the problem of cura- tive treatment of the disease, Doctor Kolmer sald his Interest was aroused ement Dr. Aristid von Grosse, visiting sistant professor at the University of Chicago, has accomplished isolation of the rare metal, protactinium, a feat comparable to the purification of radi um by the Curles, Valued at $1000. 000 an ounce, a tenth gram of the new metal, attached to a fine tungsten thread, was exhibited to fellow clem- ists at the convention of the American Chemical society In Cleveland by the twenty-nine-year-old scientist, in the problem of finding a satisfac. tory vaccine by the “infantile paraly- sis” epldemle of three years ago In Philadelphia and environs. Profess¢r Kolmer announced: “In the near future I Intend to vac cinate my own two sons with my serum.” Both Doctor Kolmer and his assist ant, attractive Anna M. Rule, risked their lives In order to demonstrate the success of the new vaccine, The vac cine contains the virus of the deadly poliomyelitis, which is the medical term for infantile paralysis. Sald Doctor Kolmer: “I am convinced that the vaccine Is entirely successful.” “Neither of us suffered any Ill ef- fects from the Injections. “Miss Rule volunteered to submit to the injections of the and dis- played the highest courage in the face of possible death. “The vaccine available ward off any epidemics acute anterior poliomyelitis that may be lurking in the future™ serum is possible now to of ue Vaccine From Spine. The successful vaccine is prepared from the spinal cord of monkeys that have developed the disease after the injection of the poliomyelitis virus into the brain under ether anesthesia, The spinal cord of one monkey, Incidentally, will furnish about seven ounces of vae- cine, sufficient for the vaccination of about 50 children. The vaccine containing the virus lis treated with a chemical substance de rived from castor beans called sodium ricinoleate, of the sodium ricinoleate does not completely kill the virus, but effects a change that renders the serum safe for injections into mon. keys and human beings, The discoverer of antl The presence paralysis vae- lives In suburban Cyowood. He is married and has two children. He was born in Lonaconing, Md, in 1888, cine Out of Unused Extras Neb.—An X-ray entirely from spare parts unused in the laboratory of the department of University Nebraska, now Is In use in the lab oratory. It probably Is kind nited to Prof. R. G. 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