Word: antitoxins
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...delved to the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, the physiology of blood vessels, the origin of blood cells. Lately her work has been what she calls "an intensive study of the blood as related to the whole pathology of tuberculosis." She expects to find an antitoxin against the disease. "If I did not believe the answer could be found I would not be working...
Died. Balto, 14, famed black, white-footed Alaskan husky, lead dog on the last lap of the mush from Nenana to Nome with diphtheria antitoxin for the 1925 epidemic; of old age; in Cleveland's Brookside Park and Zoölogical Gardens...
Gynecology, his first medical love, made him a throat specialist. Laryngology made him a bacteriologist. Although he has done great work in the fight against all diseases, his pride is his anti-diphtheria record. Before his introduction of diphtheria antitoxin to the U. S. there were 150 diphtheria deaths per 100,000 of population each year, or about 600 deaths per 100,000 children. New York City used to have 100 deaths a week during the diphtheria season. During the last month, the community has had only four...
...material is a toxoid. The standard method of preparing scarlet fever antitoxin has been to infect a horse with the disease and let his blood manufacture the antitoxin. Although useful, this antitoxin occasionally causes sharp reactions, is unpleasant...
...National Institute of Health makes its toxoid by treating live scarlet fever bacilli with formalin and heat. After standing two months the germs lose their virulence, form with the antitoxin a bland but adequate protection against scarlet fever...