Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late 1930s, the only protection against pneumococcal pneumonia was serum prepared in animals. It was neither reliable nor safe. Then came the sulfas, and an intensified search for better medications for both prevention and treatment. Toward war's end, the armed forces developed a vaccine from a fraction of the pneumococcus microbe itself. But six different types were needed. And by then, penicillin was becoming available. It was a great pneumococcus killer. Doctors ignored the vaccines...
Harvard had entered today's events at Brandeis with a 45-23 bulge over the Eagles, and their lead had seemed so secure that coach Bill McCurdy entered only a fraction of his team, resting many of his stars for this Saturday's Heptagonal meet at Princeton...
Pilling up 45 point and qualifying men in all three running trials, the Crimson is so assured of victory after today's finals that coach Bill McCurdy will enter only a fraction of his squad in the events remaining. McCurdy hopes to enter the Heptagonals at Princeton this Saturday with as healthy a squad as possible...
...plasma a day. But as he continues to improve, that dose will be lowered. The doctors at Baylor plan to keep close watch over him, but now they are much more concerned with trying to figure out what saved him-the massive transfu sions, the great quantities of Blomback Fraction, or the brief dose of psychiatry. Whatever the vital treatment was, says Dr. Hill, "the first and most important thing we learned in this case is that no hemophilia is ever hopeless...
They studied the report again and prepared their own fraction-125 cc. from eight pints of blood. Fred got 35 such doses, but at first even those seemed futile. "The boy kept bleeding and bleeding," said one of his doctors. Remembering how close Fred had been to his father, the doctor decided that his patient might actually be harboring a death wish. "Bleeding can be tied in with the emotions," says the doctor. And how else to explain why someone who understood his condition as well as Fred did would spend his time in the hospital picking at his nose...