Word: antitoxins
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...During the past 23 years, William Koch, a discredited M.D., and his brother Louis have widely marketed from their Koch Laboratories a phony synthetic "antitoxin" for cancer called Glyoxylide. They claimed it was made from fatty sulfur compounds, sold it for prices ranging from $25 to $300 a thimbleful. Since cancer is not caused by bacteria but is an anarchy of the body's own cells, a cancer antitoxin is a contradiction in terms. Last week the Koch Bros, were arrested for violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Their brew was found watery. Said Assistant U.S. Attorney...
...introduction of a Quartermaster's Rotc, combined with a new 12 month, draft-exempt business course, account for the presence of many more student business men back at Harvard than could normally be expected. The Law School, on the other hand, had no such antitoxin, and has suffered accordingly...
...medical journals, are on display in Strange Malady, a breezily written book published last week by Dr. Warren Taylor Vaughan of Richmond, Va. (Doubleday; $3). Son of the late Dr. Victor Clarence Vaughan, who was not only a pioneer allergist but also the man who brought the first diphtheria antitoxin from Europe to the U. S., Dr. Warren Vaughan tells in his book about all that a layman needs or wants to know about allergy-how "sensitization" takes place, its bodily results, its myriad agents, its treatment. From kapok to camel's hair to cockroach powder to cosmetics...
Drugs and Blood. Among the huge supplies of surgical materials stored up by the Government: 600,000 doses of tetanus antitoxin; 13,000,000 yards of gauze bandage; 225,000 stretchers. Over 100,000 donors in the London area, mostly women, are having their blood typed, expect to be ready for transfusions within a few minutes' notice. Blood of the universal Type Four, which can be safely used for all persons, has been stored in refrigerated banks, in special air-tight bottles...
...farmer, who lives surrounded by 400 horses at the Institute's annex in Garches. He makes tremendous quantities of serums against diphtheria, bubonic plague, tetanus and other dread diseases. These serums are sold all over the world. Professor Ramon is famed as the man who developed diphtheria antitoxin, and the principle of multiple vaccination: immunization against several diseases with a single vaccination. > Dr. Ernest François Auguste Fourneau, master of chemical therapy, known for his local anesthetics, stovaine and stovarsol. Dr. Fourneau, a serious-looking man, when asked how he happened to name his discoveries, always says that...