Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their 24th convention, they crowded instructive lectures about stomach wrinkles, minced glands and many another subject (see p. 35). But none of these topics provided the assembled surgeons with the practical interest that Dr. Herbert Lester Charles Johnson packed into his lecture on the use of concentrated amniotic fluid as a preventive of peritonitis...
...Amniotic fluid is a liquid which a mother secretes in her womb while she is bearing her baby...
...baby floats in that liquid until it is born. Just before birth, the "bag of water" bursts, and the fluid cascades forth...
That amniotic fluid might have another use gradually dawned on surgeons, when they realized that women who underwent caesarean sections seldom developed peritonitis. That was because amniotic fluid is a potent germicide. When an obstetrician opens the belly to lift out the child, the protective waters flood all the neighborhood of the womb...
Medicine suspects any theory that germs cause cancer. Likewise Medicine is stubbornly skeptical of any theory that germs can be advantageously used to treat cancer. Dr. Coley invented his anti-cancer toxin, Coley's Fluid, 40 years ago. It is a mixture of the toxins produced by the germ of erysipelas and a harmless germ called Bacillus prodigiosus which grows on food. Prodigiosus toxin fortifies the action of erysipelas toxin. Together they have cured an appreciable number of people dying of cancer, and together they have in numerous instances prevented the spread of cancer to remote parts...