Florence Seibert; Developed First Accurate TB Test

Florence Seibert, 93, who developed the first accurate test for tuberculosis, which is still used around the world. A chemist in a paper mill during World War I, Miss Seibert won a scholarship to Yale University, where she developed a safe method for giving intravenous transfusions. She developed the tuberculosis skin test through her research at the universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania and Uppsala in Sweden. Her test, for which the National Tuberculosis Assn. awarded her its Trudeau Medal, was accepted by the U.S. government as its standard in 1941 and by the World Health Organization in 1952. In St. Petersburg, Fla., on Aug. 23.