Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public wet and shivering, cold and snuffling, waiting for a reluctant Spring, came the news that a "new pneumonia serum" had been discovered by one Dr. Lloyd B. Felton, of the Harvard Medical School...
Horses. The "horse serum," in use heretofore, had been regarded by many as worse than the disease it was meant to cure. It is made by injecting pneumonia germs (called pneumococci) into the blood of a horse. The horse then develops in his blood a substance which aids in destroying or digesting these germs. This substance-the so-called "antibody"-is known to be carried in the serum, or "clear liquid" of the blood. The remedial method in using the "horse serum" was to inject a large quantity of highly diluted serum into the human patient. This serum generally brought...
...general influenza epidemic of 1918-19 has been working with a commission organized by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in an attempt to find a remedy for influenza. Although he has not conquered influenza, he has found a serum for the most dreaded concomitant of that disease-the pneumonia which often put a fatal termination to a case of influenza...
Died. General Julian Shakespeare Carr, 79, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, delegate-at-large from North Carolina to 14 Democratic National Conventions; of pneumonia, in Chicago...
...discovery of Dr. Felton's is in many ways a parallel to the concentration and refinement of diphtheria antitoxin. It is predicted that the great strides made in the prevention and cure of diphtheria will be duplicated to a considerable extent in the next decade in the fight on pneumonia, and this latest discovery is the first big progressive step in that direction. Although research by members of the influenza Commission has been going on for five years, Dr. Felton's discovery is the only one that has been made...