The pneumococcus and some men who came to Yale: the Dorothy M. Horstmann Lecture.

Scientific essays on infectious diseases in honor of Dorothy M. Horstmann, M.D.

Putting Together the Pieces of Polio: How Dorothy Horstmann Helped Solve the Puzzle

Dr. Dorothy Horstmann, epidemiologist, virologist, clinician, and educator, was the first woman appointed as a professor at the Yale School of Medicine. Horstmann made significant contributions to the fields of public health and virology, her most notable being the demonstration that poliovirus reached the central nervous system via the bloodstream, upsetting conventional wisdom and paving the ...

From the Notebook of John Rodman Paul

concept of certain new etiologic forces which lie back of those which were once thought to be basic such as, for instance, the factors which lie back of the pneumococcus as a cause of pneumonia. Of late years conservative opinion does not allow anything to be really considered as 'etiology' unless we can succeed in getting it into a test tube, unless we can precipitate it, -unless we can crysta...

VIII. Immunological Effectiveness of the Two Dose Schedule †

The immunological effectiveness of the Middletown oral poliovirus vaccination program was determined by testing preand post-vaccinal neutralizing antibody levels in blood specimens from a selected group of children, representing about five per cent of the school children and 10 per cent of the preschool vaccinees. The present paper is concerned with the results of these tests in terms of the an...

The Biochemistry of Poliomyelitis Viruses

is based on the fact that all contributors utilized epoxyor polyesterembedded specimens which, although the best embedding media available at present, may not represent the ideal and ultimate method of preparation. In addition, new fixatives and stains have been introduced recently and improvements in sectioning and microscopy can be expected. While many structures have been well described in t...