Chicago, Ill., Dec. 22—That scarlet fever has been conquered by a new anti-toxin is definitely established by a long series of successful experiments conducted at Northwestern University. The important discovery has been tested in so many cases that the authorities of Evanston Hospital feel warranted in making the public announcement today.
The experiments have been watched by notable physicians over a long period, and all of them are enthusiastic over the discovery. Dr. George and Gladys Dick of Chicago not only succeeded in isolating the scarlet fever bacterium, but discovered a speed cure, and also developed an anti-toxin that prevents the disease from getting a foothold.
With rare poetic justice, it was the McCormick Institute for Contagious Diseases that furnished the laboratories where the important experiments were conducted. Harold F. McCormick founded and endowed this hospital as a memorial to his 7-year-old son who had died of scarlet fever.
The discovery is of the utmost value to child life. Scarlet fever has taken an appalling toll among children, and even when they recover from the dread fever they must battle with blindness, deafness, rheumatism, heart and kidney disease that follow in its wake.
From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, Dec. 22, 1924
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