Sidney Farber - bibliography

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Biography

American paediatrician, 1903-1973.

Bibliography

  • LeRoy Dryden Fothergill (1901-1861), H. Dingle, S. Farber, M. L. Connerley:
    Human encephalitis caused by the virus of the eastern variety of equine encephalomyelitis.
    New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1938: 219: 411.
    Isolation of the virus of Eastern equine encephalitis from man.
  • S. Farber, Louis Klein Diamond (1902-), R. D. Mercer, R. F. Sylvester, V. A. Wolff:
    Temporary remissions in acute leukemia in children produced by folic acid antagonist 4-amethopteroylglutamic acid (aminopterin).
    New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1946, 238: 787-793.
  • S. Farber, et al (5 co-authors):
    Clinical studies on the carcinolytic action of triethylenephosphoramide.
    Cancer, Philadelphia, 1953, 6: 135-141.
  • S. Farber:
    Carcinolytic action of antibiotics: puromycin and antimocyn. D.
    American Journal of Pathology, Philadelphia, 1944, 31: 582.

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