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Babies come crying into the world. They cry for air but in many cases the tears are gummy with pus, the little eyelids swollen and glued together. "Babies sore eyes" (ophthalmia neonatorum) is a common complaint. Gonorrhoeal infection is almost always the cause; contracted from the mother, or in an occasional instance from infected hands or articles. Total blindness is often the result, how often is indicated by the 25% of all blindness in children ascribed to it. This dark, tragic disease may be entirely prevented by therapy during pregnancy; may even be entirely cured, after having been contracted...
...Horse serum, however, makes many sick people worse. The foreign proteins introduced into the human body may cause chills, sweating, suffocation, fainting: obviously not the best stimulation for a Floyd Bennett with a temperature of 103 degrees; a pulse of 124 beats a minute; a left lung full of pus. This was the Type II serum at Montreal; pure enough but containing horse serum...
...joints, obstinate suppuration, cardiac inflammation following chronic ulceration. Using the thermo-cauterizer, a scientific and delicate branding iron, he lays back the skin at the affected area and lightly sears the tissues underneath. The skin is then replaced in such a way as to allow drainage of pus and ultimate healing, thereby avoiding the scars which were the landmarks of former cauterization. The burning produces a high fever, which in turn produces a cure, according to the hundreds of cases reported by Dr. Bier...
...last performed without an anesthetic, had not daunted Bratiano's spirit. He composed himself to sleep, inhaling pure oxygen, his swollen throat kept open by an inserted silver tube. As midnight tolled from a distant spire, the Premier stirred and seemed to rally. Then drops of an evil pus were discovered in his throat. Blood poisoning had set in. The great statesman who had doubled the area of Rumania during his eleven premierships was told that Death would surely claim him before dawn...
Cowpox and smallpox are intimately related. Pus taken from a human smallpox sore and innoculated into a cow gives the beast cowpox. The cow's system reduces the virility of the smallpox germs. Pus from a cowpox sore in turn, through vaccination, makes humans resistant to smallpox; it makes them immune. The three New York victims, by milking their infected cows, vaccinated themselves unwittingly. Previously they had not been vaccinated in the ordinary way. Had they been, they probably would not have contracted the cowpox...