Word: globulins
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...passive" kind-e.g., the immunities that every baby receives from its mother, and that last for only the first few months of life. Doctors now know that this kind of immunity can often be given later in life by injections of the blood fraction known as gamma globulin, taken from persons who have had some of the virus diseases. Like the newborn's immunity, this soon wears off. But if somebody enjoying this temporary immunity is exposed to the virus, Stokes reasons, his body goes to work and develops the second, or "active," kind of immunity, which...
...Utah County, Utah, where the polio rate has been high this summer, one group of youngsters is now getting injections of a blood particle known as gamma globulin; a second group, dummy shots. Purpose: to see whether gamma globulin, which is especially rich in natural antibodies, will do for humans what it seems to do for laboratory animals-prevent virulent polio strains from leading to paralysis...
...fluid part of the blood goes through more centrifuges and chilling processes. Out come a serum globulin (used to prevent or control measles), serum albumin (for treatment of shock), fibrinogen, thrombin and prothrombin - and more components of blood for which medical science has not yet found uses...
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...
...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...