Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elsbach's treatment short-cuts all this. He uses a specially prepared salt solution of organic substances produced by the ordinary Bacillus coli, found in human intestines. No scratch tests are necessary, for the Coli Metabolin acts on all forms of hay fever. Somehow the compound has a tonic effect on the irritated sympathetic nervous system. Treatment consists of eight to twelve injections; the first five injections are given daily, the rest every other day. Said Dr. Elsbach: "Treatment before the onset of hay fever is not necessary but should be started when the first symptoms appear. A marked...
...attached electrodes to the man's brain and heart, tried vainly to stimulate them. He injected an adrenalin compound into the heart, meanwhile compressing the chest. No results. Only sign of life: when he struck the man's forearm with a rubber hammer, it twitched like a knee jerk. After two hours, Dr. Brickley pronounced him "dead beyond recall." Electrocution, said Dr. Brickley last week, kills in three different ways: 1) it heats the body abnormally, coagulating the blood; 2) it contracts the muscles, choking off the body's supply of oxygen; 3) it produces rupture...
Bacteriophage is almost as elusive as filtrable viruses; it can scarcely be seen under a high-powered microscope, and must be cultured on a special nitrogen compound called asparagine. For every patient, said Dr. MacNeal, he must send a sample of blood or pus containing the bacteria to special laboratories, have the bacteriophage made to order. It is injected into the veins, as much as a quart in eight hours. Since it is difficult to culture, doctors seldom think of using it until the "extreme stage" of illness. According to Dr. MacNeal, bacteriophage first weakens bacteria with special enzymes, then...
...American woman evangelist who stayed at her post when the Japanese occupied that region sheltered several hundred Chinese women in the mission compound. The sex-hungry Japanese told her to turn the women over "for protection against bandits." She refused and kept the soldiers out of the compound, even though she herself was beaten and stripped. When the Japanese retired after a month's occupation, she was the first to follow them on the retreat. She tucked a basket of medical supplies under her arm and went up into the hill villages, dressing wounds at every place she stopped...
...rats, mice and rabbits in their research work. When they gave the animals huge doses of sulfa drugs, or of common poisons, the scientists found that five basic substances present in normal blood promptly dwindled or disappeared. The vital chemicals: 1) ascorbic acid (vitamin C); 2) choline, a nitrogen compound, a constituent of nerve tissue; 3) cystine, a sulfur-containing compound found in hair and finger nails; 4) glycine, a protein derivative found in bile; 5) glucuronic acid, an organic acid found in urine...