Word: institutum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singular and ideal" healing ointment for severe burns-long sought by good physicians-was announced last fortnight by Dr. Thomas F. P. Walsh of Chicago's Mercy Hospital. He spoke before Cincinnati's Institutum Divi Thomae, * whose staff, directed by Dr. George Speri Sperti, produced in their laboratory the ointment Dr. Walsh tested in the hospital. Dr. Sperti believes that the research work which produced the new treatment will "go down in history as second to none other, including the work of Pasteur...
Exactly how the new substance works is not known. Theory is that, when some cells are injured or destroyed, the injured cells produce hormones which stimulate cellular multiplication so that the tissues heal. The Institutum scientists set out to manufacture these Hypothetical hormones (which Dr. Sperti" christened "biodynes") in the laboratory so that they could be applied to human wounds to accelerate healing. At first the biodynes were created by exposing tissues from rat and chicken embryos to ultraviolet rays. This injured some of the cells and induced production of the healing substances in them. The scientists now extract...
...Rosary College in Illinois, she went on with her science studies. In 1930 she took her final vows as a member of the Dominican Sisters, became Sister Mary Jordan Carroll. Dr. George Sped Sperti, famed director of the Institutum Divi Thomae in Cincinnati, sent word that he had places for two able sisters on his research staff. Sister Mary Jordan Carroll went...
Lately Sister Mary Jordan Carroll, Professor Fardon and others at the Institutum have been investigating the respiration of cells. From yeast and animal tissue cells they were able to extract an oxidizing agent, which they call biodin, and which stimulates oxygen consumption. After precipitation as a white powder, biodin retains its powers, can be sent back to work to speed up the life fires of injured tissues. Last week, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Philadelphia, Sister Mary Jordan Carroll demonstrated biodin, with microscope and test tube. Naturally she attracted a good deal of attention...
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