Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. Transmitted by body…
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Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed--refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples--causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death.
The astonishing success of Weigl's techniques attracted the attention and admiration of the world--giving him cover during the Nazi's violent occupation of Lviv. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl.In the 1920s, Weigl had created the first typhus vaccine using a method as bold as it was dangerous for its use of living human subjects. His lab soon flourished as a hotbed of resistance.
Weigl hired otherwise doomed mathematicians, writers, doctors, and other thinkers, protecting them from atrocity. The team engaged in a
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