Word: antitoxins
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...health officials disagree with the current British theory: that more dangerous new strains of diphtheria bacilli have developed, in the U.S., the standard treatments-immunization with toxoid injections, therapy with antitoxin-are still effective...
...Diphtheria. In Gateshead, England, which has had severe diphtheria epidemics (2,911 cases, 147 deaths) during the past ten years, Dr. Richard J. Dodds tried heavy doses of penicillin (besides diphtheria antitoxin) on a test group of 13 hard-hit patients. One died, but the rest recovered more rapidly and with fewer complications than patients who got only antitoxin...
Died. Dr. Alexandre Emile John Yersin, 79, Pasteur Institute bacteriologist, codiscoverer with Dr. Pierre Roux of diphtheria antitoxin; in Annan, French Indo-China. He was also codiscoverer of an antitoxin with which he fought the bubonic plague in China in the 'gos, in honor of him the Chinese raised temples...
...flying bits of metal. In Russia, as elsewhere, plasma transfusions have reduced effects of shock, which is essentially a disorder of the blood stream (the body tissues seem to absorb the blood's natural plasma). Sulfa drugs and tetanus serum have reduced danger of infections. In use of antitoxin for gas gangrene-the bacterial infection that causes a wound to froth-Russia claims to be well ahead of other nations. Said Dr. Hugh Cabot, famed Boston surgeon, recently: "We are still wondering whether we can get a vaccine for gas gangrene . . . but [the Russians] have the vaccine and they...
Since the old scourge of tetanus can be controlled by injections of antitoxin, the main germ to worry about in open wounds is the bacillus which causes gas gangrene. Open wounds should be treated thus: 1) all glass, bullets, stones, shrapnel, etc. must be cut out of the wound; 2) all dead and bruised tissue-breeding grounds for the bacillus-must be snipped away so that the blood stream can get directly at the germs and destroy them; 3) sulfanilamide powder should be sprinkled on the raw surface, and the patient kept at rest...