Rockefeller Institute.
Hide Profile
In 1892, the physician and medical administrator Simon Flexner began research on cerebrospinal meningitis, a meningococcal disease with an untreated mortality rate between 70 and 90%. Experimenting on monkeys, Flexner developed a promising serum treatment for the disease by 1903, which he used extensively during the epidemic outbreaks of meningitis in New York City in 1904-1905 and 1907. For several years, Flexner kept his serum under his close supervision, with the result that the Rockefeller Institute became the primary source for knowledge about meningitis and its treatment.
From the guide to the Rockefeller Institute. Meningitis Records, 1907-1913, (American Philosophical Society)
Filters:
Relation | Name |
---|---|
associatedWith | Allen, Willard M., 1904-1993 |
associatedWith | Bartlemez, George W., b. 1885 |
associatedWith | Beebe, William, 1877-1962 |
associatedWith | Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980 |
associatedWith | Berle, Adolf Augustus, 1895-1971 |
correspondedWith | Cannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945 |
associatedWith | Castle, William E., (William Ernest), 1867-1962 |
associatedWith | Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros, (Wilfrid Edward Le Gros), 1895-1971 |
associatedWith | Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981. |
associatedWith | Cowdry, E. V., (Edmund Vincent), 1888-1975 |
Corporate Body
Variant Names
Shared Related Resources
Rockefeller Institute.
Rockefeller Institute. | Title |
---|