Word: antitoxins
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...scientist, oculist, author, brother of Writer Frank Ward O'Malley; of arteriosclerosis after a lingering illness; in Philadelphia. As a young bacteriologist, he was credited by Sir William Osier with being the foremost figure in the U. S. in arousing medical interest in the then new diphtheria antitoxin. For seven years he was Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame. Forced to resign because of poor health, he researched in eye diseases, gained fame as an oculist...
...Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850-1914) who was then 34-proposed creating immunity against disease with products of the bacteria which caused the disease. With this idea they immunized pigeons against hog cholera. Their method rationalized the whole subject of vaccination. It promptly led to the invention of diphtheria antitoxin...
When the child was one year old, she received toxin-antitoxin against diphtheria. The serum came from a horse. Last year she was exposed to diphtheria. The doctor injected a protective dose of antitoxin (derived from a horse) in her left buttock. The part swelled. Three days later the doctor found diphtheria germs in cultures from her nose and throat, and at once gave her a large dose of antitoxin in the right buttock. That antitoxin also came from a horse. The left buttock was still swollen. Within a few days the right buttock swelled and, as the days passed...
...Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on the Alaska Peninsula, landed on a level spot amid the active craters, took photographs and flew safely away again. Pilot Joe Crosson (who found Eielson's wrecked plane after the two-month search) flew from Fairbanks to diphtheria-stricken Point Barrow, bearing antitoxin...
...fight the germs. Laboratory men withdrew blood from Doc Dobbin's neck. They stored it in sterile glass cylinders, allowed the valuable antibody serum to separate from the rest of the blood. After three days the serum was siphoned of, stored in a refrigerator ready for use. Antitoxin horses are bled once a month, are permitted to rest, feed well between times. No matter how old they become, they are useful for antitoxin so long as they are healthy...