Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 12, Number 7, DeMotte, Jasper County, 25 December 1941 — Arsenal of Health [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Arsenal of Health

If hile we are all conscious of the gigantic work going on in our steel mills and factories to proditce the equipment that will keep America secure against outside attack , few of us know about the total war that is going on to crush the enemy withiri — DISEASE. In hundreds of laboratories men and women labor to crush him. The weapons they manufacture are vaccines, serums and toxins. These photos show what goes on in the William Hallock Park laboratory in New York.

A step in the concentration and refinement of crude serums. Harmful substances are removed by precipitation with chemicals and collected by filtration.

Unsung hero. A sterile canula has been inserted into the horse's jugular. Blood is' drawn into the large tube and allowed to clot.

This technician is operating the apparatus in which final sterilization and filtration of biological products is carried out.

H earing aseptic masks, caps and gowns, women technicians are working on sterile cubicles, filling the vials with anti-rabic vaccine. This product has saved the lives of many bitten by rabid animals.

As in every other step of the preparation of sera , vaccines and antitoxins, extraordinary precautions are taken in bottling the products. A glass window covers most of the filling operation to prevent air contamination.

A small quantity of blood is taken from ear vein of rabbit. From this blood a quantity of anti-pneumococcic serum is extracted.