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Finally-and so far the most important-was gamma globulin, which prevents measles or softens its severity, and wards off infectious hepatitis. Most recently, gamma globulin has won fame in the fight against polio. A less exacting researcher might have been satisfied, but not Cohn. He hated the waste (and doubted the wisdom) of using whole gamma globulin as a shotgun blast against any of three diseases, and wanted to break it down into still finer fractions for pinpoint use against each disease...
...career which spanned more than 30 years, Dr. Cohn aided in the development of liver extract for the treatment of pernicious anemia, serum albumin for use in cases of battlefield and accident shock, and several other medically important blood products. His work led directly to the recent discovery of gamma globulin as an immunizing agent against polio...
...With the demand for gamma globulin already far greater than the supply, three Harvard investigators reported on another use for it: preventing the spread of infectious hepatitis (a liver infection causing jaundice). The Harvardmen studied 81 families where jaundice had broken out, found that the disease spread within the family 48% of the time when G.G. was not given. In families where G.G. was given preventively after the first outbreak, only one additional case turned...
...With 5,373 cases reported, the 1953 polio season was running neck & neck with 1952 (5,415 to the same date). One-third of the gamma globulin set aside for mass inoculations had already been parceled out among eleven communities in eight states...
...Health officers in Montgomery County, Ala. proclaimed that the great gamma-globulin inoculation campaign (TIME, July 13) had been a success: only six new polio cases had been reported in the week. Actually, the promptness of the sharp decline indicated that the whole costly program might have been unnecessary: the outbreak was probably dying out naturally since gamma globulin, so far as is known, could not bring such quick results...