Preliminary arrangements for testing a tuberculous preventive serum on Colorado convict volunteers are detailed in a message received here yesterday by Justice Samuel D. Levy of the Domestic Relations Court, from Dr. H. J. Corper, research director of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, in whose Iaboratories the serum was developed, Justice Levy heads the New York committee of the hospital.
The new serum has been tried on animals and found successful. Now it has been made ready for tests on humans. It is not a cure for tuberculosis but is intended to immunize normal persons against contracting the disease.
More than 800 prisoners in the Colorado state penitentiary have responded to Governor Ed. C. Johnson’s call for volunteer subjects for experimentation. Twelve men will be selected from twenty-five tentative choices thus far made. It will be at least six months after the tests before anything definite is known, full results will not be known for years, Dr. Corper writes.
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