Word: antiserum
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...wish to correct a very serious error in your article in this week's TIME [Dec. 3] concerning antiserum against black widow spider venom. The serum has not been used on any human cases, nor would I sanction its use as so far developed. It is highly potent in the rat, 1/10 cubic centimeter (about two drops) will completely protect rats against eight average lethal doses when given immediately, and 1 cubic centimeter given three and one-half hours later will give prompt recovery against the same dose...
TIME congratulates Professor D'Amour on the progress he has made with his antiserum for black widow venom, hopes his future experiments on human beings will be as effective as he expects...
...doctors began to recognize it the numbers jumped. Last year alone, there were 1,021 known cases, with some 50 deaths. No specific treatment for the disease was known until last year, when Bacteriologist Lee Foshay of the University of Cincinnati reported development of a curative antiserum. Commonest in Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, tularemia has been found in all states except Delaware, Washington and, until Allen Macdougall skinned a sick fox, New England...
...metals, ground up tumor particles, filtrates from tumor cells, extracts from all the organs, serums from animals have been injected with cancer cells so as to produce an antibody. But all these have been tried and have failed with two exceptions." The exceptions: lead, which is dangerous; a powerful antiserum, which does not effect a tumor that has started to grow...
...epidemics, reported by each city to be well in hand, called forth fresh outbursts from antiserum faddists, notably Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle to vulgarians of "physical culture." Macfadden's Manhattan sheetlet, The Graphic, ran "screamers" about "two persons known to be dead from tetanus following the injection of pus from diseased animals" in Baltimore. Health officials admitted the deaths from tetanus, then explained to the newspaper that the serum injected was not "cow-pox," but human smallpox, scientifically prepared in the glycerated lymph of calves. "This," said The Graphic, "is little else than a form of variolation which...