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...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...
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...
...antidote, known as gamma globulin, has proved effective in a majority of cases tried. Much of the success of the new treatment is credited to Dr. Cohn...
...Gamma globulin is a blood protein. The solution the Army & Navy use is made from donations to the Red Cross blood bank. In tests it has prevented attacks of measles entirely or made them mild. One obvious use for gamma globulin: to prevent measles in children under two, for whom the disease is very dangerous...