Word: antitoxin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pneumonia Antitoxin. An antitoxin possibly efficacious against the four types of pneumonia** has just been devised. If the symptoms (sharp pains in chest, chills, temperature rise, coughing) are quickly heeded and this new antitoxin given within 48 hours, then the prognosis seems good. The reporters...
...Needless Antitoxin. Antitoxin against scarlet fever has kept people from catching the disease in several widely scattered U. S. cities where tests were made, reported Dr. John F. Anderson of New Brunswick, N. J. But Dr. William H. Park of the New York City Health Department amended the optimism by pointing out that scarlet fever is not highly contagious, that the antitoxin should be administered to cure, not needlessly to prevent...
...Antitoxin. Two years ago when Dr. Birkhaug was working at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore,** a friend suffering from erysipelas came to him. The doctor had been working on scarlet fever. But he decided to concentrate on erysipelas. He knew, as had long been known, that streptococcus pyogenes was the cause, that of this germ there are several strains, of which one is streptococcus erysipelatis. The problem was to isolate this particular strain and to develop from it a serum. He succeeded...
Immunity. There is no autoimmunity to erysipelas. Therefore Dr. Birkhaug advises that a person subject to this disease should take a prophylatic injection of the antitoxin serum to counteract a future sickness...
...When a Koch discovers the tubercle bacillus, a Banting discovers insulin for the relief of diabetes, or a von Behring an antitoxin for the cure of diphtheria, or a Park demonstrates the value of the antitoxin for the prevention of diphtheria, the world draws a long breath as if saying to itself, 'Now we are rid of that terror which has haunted the human race for centuries.' It then straightway forgets and goes on its way comfortably, assuming that, of course, the great discovery or invention is being carried into effect...