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Died. Cosmo Hamilton, 70, writer-brother of Writers A. Hamilton Gibbs and Sir Philip Gibbs (he took his mother's maiden name when he began to write); of pneumonia; at Shanley Green, England. A tireless jack-of-all-writing, he averaged a novel a year most of his adult life...
...particular he warned the onslaught of "virus Pneumonia" which is apparently spreading. Although the disease is rarely, if ever, fatal, Dr. Bock pointed out that a loss of two to three weeks could be expected...
...time they had created antibodies in laboratory flasks. These artificial antibodies-the substances which form in the blood to fight poisons or diseases-were capable of attacking only a few simple chemical poisons (TIME, March 30). The latest news from Caltech is even more incredible: antibodies against bacterial disease, pneumonia III (one of the several forms of lung infection), have now been made synthetically. This achievement of Biochemists Linus Pauling and Dan Campbell is still in the realm of experimental medicine, and flask-prepared solutions will not yet replace the immunizing serums for clinical use now developed in horses...
...complementary to those of the invading antigens, so that they can combine with them and neutralize them. After the infection or poisoning has been overcome, these changed globulin molecules remain in the blood as antibodies, ready to attack any later enemies. Hence immunity. Pauling and Campbell made their artificial pneumonia antibodies from serum globulin extracted from beef blood. Steps in the process: 1) the globulin molecules were heated to 135° F. for two weeks to make their structures "unfold"; 2) a complex sugar secreted by the pneumonia type III bacteria was added to the flask; 3) the solution...
General symptoms are fever (usually 100°-103°), cough, chilliness, headache (often severe). Lung inflammation appears within the first few days but is seldom as extensive as in pneumonia. Sulfa drugs don't help the patient and sometimes increase a patient's misery. Treatment with pneumonia serums has also proved futile...