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[Nov. 17th, 2011|12:09 pm] |
Занимательная история про вакцину против тифа и математика Банаха:
вакцина против тифа делалась в 30-е годы следующим образом:
* Growing healthy lice, for about 12 days
* Injecting them with typhus
* Growing them more, for 5 more days
* Extracting the midguts and grinding them up into a paste (which was the vaccine)
Growing lice meant feeding them blood, the more human the better. At first he tested his method on Guinea pigs but around 1933 he commenced large-scale testing on humans, feeding the lice on human blood by letting them suck on human legs through a screen.
Это придумал Rudolf Weigl, который в '41-ом году занимался исследованиями тифа во Львове. Когда фашисты захватили Львов, лаборатория Weigl'а стала прибежищем для ученых, которых попёрли из институтов, в частности Банаха.
Following the German takeover of Lwów in 1941 in Operation Barbarossa, all universities were closed and Banach, along with many colleagues and his son, was employed as lice feeder at Professor Rudolf Weigl's Typhus Research Institute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Weigl |
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