Word: lancet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was in 1965. Now in recent issues of both the A.M.A. Journal and the British journal Lancet, teams from NIH and Columbia University have reported that, contrary to prevailing medical opinion, both infectious and serum hepatitis are probably caused by a single virus. That virus appears to be identical with the Australia antigen...
Writing in the British medical weekly Lancet, the investigators describe the palm lines of 100 normal children and how they compare with those of 25 children with acute or chronic leukemia. Thirty-six percent of the leukemic children had either a simian or a Sydney line in one or both palms, as against only 13% of the normals. Victims of genetically determined mongolism are notoriously susceptible to leukemia. Oddly, identical patterns appear in the palms of the mongoloid children and in those of rubella-damaged babies. The reason, according to the Australian researchers, may be that some fetuses are genetically...
...Nixon team reports in the Lancet that of 59 patients treated, one died from perforation of a peptic ulcer. After their treatment, eight more died, but most of these had complicating diseases or injuries...
...lungs, have been treated. In at least ten, the result is cautiously reported as "satisfactory." In others, it was equivocal, but all these patients had other complicating problems. From London's Royal Postgraduate Medical School comes a report of nine patients treated, eight successfully. Most important, the Lancet notes editorially, is that Arvin may not only prevent clotting but actually help to dissolve some clots already formed...
...Malaya, treating victims of pit viper bites, noticed that they never seemed to have trouble with clots, and neither did they bleed excessively. Years of research to purify the active part of the venom yielded a substance named Arvin by London's Twyford Laboratories. Now, reports in the Lancet testify to the potential of Arvin, given intravenously...