Word: globulins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Department of Public Health units, such as the one operating at Brooks House, use the blood for direct transfusions, plasma, and fractionization. Under the latter process, recently developed at the Harvard Medical School, blood is broken down into albumin, fibrinogen, thrombin, bloud grouping globulin, and antihemophilic globulin...
...facts known about hepatitis' cause & cure, Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia's Children's Hospital and Army Captain John R. Neefe added an important discovery. In the Journal of the American Medical Association they reported that blood serum globulin (already used as a measles preventive) can probably stop an infectious hepatitis epidemic...
...Globulin is extracted from the pooled blood serum of many donors, thus contains disease-fighting elements contributed by all of them. The protection it gives is only temporary, but usually lasts until an epidemic is over. The doctors got the chance to try globulin last summer at a large summer camp where infectious hepatitis was spoiling the vacations of 80% of the campers. Of 331 as yet unjaundiced campers, 53 got globulin injections. Soon 67% of the untreated campers got sick, while 80.2% of the globulin-shot kept well. And those who succumbed were not as sick as the untreated...
Ranging from albumen to measles globulin, Professor Cohn's already long list of extractions has only recently been enlarged by two new ones, a synthetic membrane or skin used in treating burns, and a dark brown substance, with possibilities in medical use just beginning to be explored...
...blood-plasma extracts, one like skin, the other like bone, were announced a fortnight ago by the Harvard Medical School's Department of Physical Chemistry. The laboratory work was done under Dr. Edwin Joseph Cohn, who perfected the extraction of "measles globulin" and other human-blood components for the Army & Navy (TIME, June 5). The new extracts, both plastics...