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‘Modern ‘Medicine Wages Tireless War For Benefit of Mankind

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CE fear on mention of the dread word smallpox. They paled at the thought of diphtheria, tetanus, gas gangrene. Influenza was a scourge-to be reckoned

life-saving medicants is a part of an Indianapolis industry, Ell Lilly & Co, whose drugs filter over the globe, Out Greenfigld way along VU. 8. 40 stretches a long, low gleaming white structure, It

reasons, the quartering of live. stock and the raising of botanical plants. Today acreage is down because the trend in drug making is toward synthetics, not plants. The laboratory, how-

isms the toxoids. Smallpox vaecine production runs two months a year. In that time, at the rata of two calves a day, enough fluid for 1.5 million vaccinations is manufactured. This replenishes the reserve of these

ovested, ground up and added to a e¢arrying agent. When tests prove it is stable, sterile and potent, it is ready for use on man. » ” " PRODUCTION of the various

The plasma, containing the antitoxin, is separated from the red blood cells, Then, by a two. week process of precipitation and filtration, the pure antitoxin is extracted. Influenza vaccine is an en-

live virus, After 48 hours of incubation, all eggs with dead embryoes are discarded. Fluid bearing the virus is siphoned from the remainder, A routine procedure of chilling, heating, and centrifuging

combat a disease once it has struck. Vaccines and toxoids are preventatives. All but the toxoids, however, must reach a production stage through animals, For_

toxoids, the disease

+ with. looks like a Spanish mission. In ever, has been doubled in size to 4 million units held for emer- antitoxins follow like patterns. tirel . the fluid s tes out the vi 1 - : . Hirely different story. Eleven- e fluid separates out the virus germs themselves are grown in Still not diseases to be ignored, a sense It ls. The men within for production of smallpox and BENCY Use. The herd of 165 horses 18 dl" jay-old fertile eggs, processed Which is rendered non-infec- broth cultures, their poison :, modern medicine has thrown up - have a mission — to manufac- influenza virus vaccines, diph- After long periods of isola- vided into groups to receive C00 6000 an hour by tious and ready for man's use, waste retained and lethal . fluid walls of defense, The ture these vital medicines in the theria, tetanus and gas gan- tion and examination to de- Injections of the poisons nor- machine, are- inoculated with The antitoxina are used to activity destroyed. | , little vial containing smallpox constant crusade for health, grene antitoxins, and diphtheria termine thé caives are phy-. mally loosed in the body by _ Mhaiibed Shadi atded dds schuby } vaccine is taken for granted, So " " and tetanus toxoids. sically perfect and free of diphtheria, tetanus and gas | « are the shots most children to- FAR from the hard pave- Fundamentally, the sprawl. tuberculosis and undulant gangrene. day receive in Infancy. Veter- ments and smothering fog of ing buildings are barns, Cattle fever, diseases communicable to Given in small, non-harmful i, ans of the late war became well the city, the late J, K. Lilly Sr. roduce the smallpox vaccine, man, they are vaccinated on doses, the horses build up anti- +, acquainted with the immuniza- established the.firm’s Biological orses the .antitoxins, chick the stomach for smallpox. bodies to fight off the attack. , tion needle. Laboratory in 1914, Acreage embryos influenza vaccine and - In seven days the growth Every 21 days a quanfity of Processing of much of hese was needed then for two __broth cultures of living organ. from the vaccination is ‘har- the 1 horse's blood is let Winners in Ipalco Forum Essay Contest [Crosby ® Name > Scout Ball Queen Bing Crosby, Hollywood star |. : = “radio, will name a; isos omam - SE E queen y mdil to reign over the # [sixth annual Explorer Scout Ball, 3 to be held Thursday night in the | | i | Antlers Hotel. : | Mr. Crosby will select the queen § from among photographs of can- ' |didates nominated by Explorer units from the Central Indiana { Contest winners . . . H, T. Pritchard (extreme right), president of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co., presented cash awards to Council, Boy Scouts of America. ipekee Young Men's Forum essa tay victors. The winners (left to right) were Leonard Schoenbachler, Charles E. Bordens, Lloyd Wilbur | rhe Pieiion arsday Tn dr, Arnold Schnepel and J |clude a Court of Honor, at whic . Gaines, Guy Guthrie, Ralph Wegendr, Ar id S ope esse Leroy Gummings. | ol te kyon Chaperons ! for the dance include Mr. and Seven Receive Cash Awards For American Life Articles in Jn sine 3 i Mrs. Gregg Ransburg, Mr. and J Mrs. Delmer H. Wilson, Mr. and Writings Concise and Full of Meaning; on ln the he graren and Charles E. Borders, power ni.’ ‘AM Dan Nickel, Mr. and H or the od of is prefer- sales, won $25 for his essay on Mrs. 'A. L. Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wegener Gets Top Prize $50 ence. My home is my castle, ‘ree “Why I Believe in America.” Harvey U. Gill, F. L. Layden and The story was simple. - of outside intrusions. Leonard C. Schioenbachler of the Jack Messmer. : Cash awards were presented to seven employees of the Indi-, “My freedom {s insured by a Harding St. plant was a step] - er ————————————— anapolis Power & Light So. last week for their winning essays in a government of the people, chosen behind Mr. Borders. Hia essay ! “i-—gontest—sponsored by the Ipalco Young Men's Forum. : thy -bafiots cast “without ntimtda=-earned $10. ‘Holiday Visiting Hours - ’ But the thoughts behind the essays merit more than just a thet! tion. I have the right to laugh Division II. “What Free En- Listed by Hospitals of winners. and cry, to agree or disagree, tO terprise Means to Me," top The words used in the articles Wrote. “Freedom frem a dicta- prajse or to criticize. I have the awards went to Lloyd Wilbur Visiting hours at Indiana. Uniwere concise and of the ten-cent torial state and from economic right to live as long as I'can Gaines of Harding St. unit and versity: Medical Center hospitals variety. But they were full of con- or 80C fu discrimination. 4 am and enjoy the American. way of Arnold Sehpepel of engineering will be observed today and toviction, the mirror of Hoosjer (OTD Of free parenis. . .. 1 am jife, In citing the. winners at th ’ taught by teachers who enjoy Ye wh g 3 ners a € morrow. oo souls proud - to be Americans, freedom of speech and thought. “That's why I am glad that I 4nnual Christmas. party Thurs- co | the hours 2 thankful of IPL employment and am an American. That's why. I day. H. T. Pritchard. president! At Coleman Hospital the hours » free enterprise. - I can study to be a lawyer , \. 00 in America.” “rp arc. president wil be from 3 p. m. until 4 p. m. ree enterprise. or unionist, a Senator or preach- n of IPL; retained the “simple, oq from 7 p. m. to 8 p. m. on Those were the subjects Tller a machinist or writer .| Jesse Leroy, Cummings of the straight-forward tone of the win- |p +n days. Sunday visiting hours IPL employees explained mean- personal initiative largely de- | Mill St. unit ‘earned $25 for ex- ners and said: : trom 2 P. m. until 4 p. m., will ms ingtully, But the words of Ralph termines my economic and social|plaining best “Why I Work for “I'm proud of these boys . . .!appl Hospital, i] = + «(apply at Robert Long Hospital, Wegener topped them all. His es-| status. the Indianapolis Power & Light and of all the people I work Riley Hospital for Children and say won the blue ribbon: $50. “I raise my children knowing Co.” Guy Guthrie of the engl- with" Rotary ‘Convalescent Home. “To me, America means per-ifull well that they will be given neering division took the second come TUE sonal | freedom, ” "Mr. _Wegener't the same opportunities. My family | prize. * * A» Perfume Does Make Women Two Policemen PB" TE ET ay Evaruih ti ble. E ''S Pray at Grave of “3 ay Everything You Have resis ly e, EXpor ays S Little Fire Victim 1 Wished for During the Year Finds Smell Sets Up Charges on Brain HARTFORD. Conn Dec 4 Cells; Man's Nose Can Tell People Apart | UP)—Policemen Thomas C. Bar- Come to You This Day of Days y a“ 1.08 ANGELES, Dec. 24 {UP)—You can smell who's coming, Northwood Cemetery today and . “kb 3 just like your dog does, a scientist said today. paid tribute to “Little Miss 1565" . A Dr. Nowell Jgnes said a man's nofe 1 is as sharp as most animals on this C hfistmas Eve. and good enough 'to tell people apart. holl th oh] . . , | “Many blind people rely heavily on smells to recognize’) thers,” | They placed a oy wreath on } he said. This ability is frowned: on by society, he added. Db. Jones, Der grave. Wtih bowed heads 8 A péychology professor — {they prayed for the 6-year-old! | +} | conduting a study of smell, said| One reason a dog makes better ‘child whom no one knew when only the perfume industry realizes use of his nose than a man Is she died with 169 others 5. the! what great gmellers people have. that it's easter for him to sniff circus fire of five years a “Advertisements about perfume along the ground. Nation-wide appeals were made making a woman irresistible are| “Odors are heavy and tend tojand her picture was broadcast. \ the straight dope,” ‘he said. settle downward,” Mr. Jones ex- [ner one was ever found who knew “ . “Many of them-—-particularly the plained, “and you get a stronger her,. She was buried. with the 3 w | ones based on musk-—are liter, | smbll when you sniff because that) Mantiieatiop number 1585, 4214 College Ave. a —— ¥ HU. 1376 ‘ally sexually stimulating. o creatés eddies over the olfactory " » We, | The most likely theory, he said/{nerves.” IMR. BARBER and Mr, Lowe, : .\ ‘ | is that the smell sets up an elec:| The nose has almost nothing to| who Fan down hundreds of- clues pt A Divi y \ trical charge:..on the surface of(do with smelling, he added. It|to their dead-ends, p they | { pplance | ision + the olfactory cells in the brain. just conducts odors to the nerves) would never forget Met: On every 4206 College Ave. ‘HU. 1377. aNanody knows exactly, however, in the brain. anniversary of the fire, and on| ’ y What: kis things smell and| And for some unknown rea-|Memorial Day and -Christmas| Just North of 42d on College . effects the smell has, hei{son, he concluded, some people| Eve, they place a wreath on her - vhs ga -, y can't smell grave. my “e bef ? . : : b... ‘ ' !

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