Word: metchnikoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marrow from Human Corpses. The serum is not new to the Russians. Famed Professor Elie Metchnikoff was working on a similar serum back in 1900. ACS was used experimentally on animals until about 1936. Then it was tried out on human patients. To acquaint U.S. doctors with this work, the latest issue of the American Review of Soviet Medicine carries three articles on ACS, including one by Professor Bogomoletz. Some highlights...
Among his many reforms: 1) soldiers who contracted venereal disease were court-martialed, deprived of pay; 2) all men far from prophylactic stations were given kits, and tubes of Metchnikoff's paste for prevention of syphilis; 3) all men who contracted syphilis were given injections of a new French arsenic preparation (no-varsenobenzol) based on Paul Ehrlich's 606. The older drug had been difficult to give, painful to take, but novarsenobenzol (neoarsphenamine) was so great an improvement that some doctors could make 100 injections an hour...