This rabies vaccine was announced in 1910 by James Gordon Cumming (b. 1876), a physician then serving as Director of the Pasteur Institute of the University of Michigan. During World War I, Cumming joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps Reserve.
Ref: “Reports New Rabies Cure,” New York Times (April 2, 1910), p. 5.
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