Carried to death's door by the bite of a Montana tick, a laboratory worker was saved last week by a new serum. With one notable exception, this researcher was the first scientist among several score experimenting on Rocky Mountain spotted fever to recover from an attack. The other: the man who invented the serum—young Dr. Norman Hawkins Topping of the U.S. Public Health Service. His attack of fever three years ago was so '"terrible" that after his miraculous recovery he worked day & night till he produced the new serum.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever attacks at least 1,000 people a year,...
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