Medicine: Polio of 1937

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Health Commissioner John Levi Rice of New York City (who as health officer of New Haven, Conn., made it the healthiest city of its size in the U. S.) : "In the face of an epidemic ... I don't think it would be wise to carry out widespread application of a technique for which so few experts are available. The experiments have shown that without such experts the use of chemical blockade immunization is valueless. As a practical public health measure this technique is still not even a hope, despite the fine results obtained."

Dr. Thomas Milton Rivers of the Rockefeller Institute—whose Director-Emeritus Simon Flexner has been the country's leader in trying to find out what causes infantile paralysis, whose colleague Dr. Peter Kosciusko Olitsky laid the scientific groundwork for the Peet-Schultz spray: '"If I had a child in an area where poliomyelitis appeared, I would take my child to a good otolaryngologist and ask him to apply the spray in the manner set forth by Dr. Peet."