Athletes Requested to Serve as Guinea Pigs In Toxoid Serum Tests

Volunteers from varsity and House football teams, crew and track squads, and the Army R.O.T.C. unit will serve as "guinea pigs" in tests of tetanus toxoid serum.

Dr. Arlie S. Bock, professor of Hygiene, said yesterday the tests will be run by Johannes Ipsen, Jr., assistant professor of Epidemology in the School of Public Health, and head of the Massachusetts State Laboratories. Ipsen is trying to determine which of four tetanus toxoid serume is best for use by the U.S. Army.

One hundred-fifty volunteers, Bock said, will be asked to submit to two inoculations, and three blood tests in the next two months. In return, they'll be given cards noting their blood type, and will be "immune to tetanus for a long, long time."

The test starts Monday at 2 p.m. with House football players reporting to injection headquarters upstairs in Dillon Field House. Other men will not be scheduled until later in the fall.