* Dr. Mary Loveless; Developed Venom Inoculations
Mary Hewitt Loveless, 92, a physician who developed an injection to prevent shock from bee and wasp stings. While others were grinding up entire bees and other stinging insects for inoculations, she focused on venom sacs, injecting patients with venom to enable them to build up a tolerance. Her methods were questioned by many doctors as too dangerous, but in 1979 the Food and Drug Administration approved a venom immunization against bee stings. In Westport, Conn., on June 2.
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