Word: pneumonia
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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...
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...
...about 60 more in hospitals in New York and Brooklyn. While it is impossible to estimate the exact value of the discovery, even the most skeptical of those familiar with Dr. Felton's work have declared that at least 35 percent, and possibly 50 percent reduction in the pneumonia mortality rate is assured...
...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...