Word: reticular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Alexander Alexandrovitch Bogomolets, 65, director of the Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology at Kiev, discoverer of the anti-reticular cytotoxic serum ("ACS"), Which he thought might make people live to 150 by stimulating the connective tissues of the human system, but which, as a heart-disease sufferer, he could not use himself (TIME, June 17); in Kiev...
...with variations, seems to be the starting point of many a medical marvel-the transplantation of organs, resuscitation of the dead, the life-prolonging serum "ACS"-with which Russian physicians bemuse their foreign colleagues and astound the public (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944). Last week the discoverer of ACS ("anti-reticular cytotoxic serum") presented his notions and discoveries in the first English translation of his book The Prolongation of Life.* He also granted his first interview to the foreign press...
...president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. When the Germans came, he moved from Kiev (he was born in jail there in 1881, while his mother was a political prisoner) to Ufa in the Urals. This month he will move back. Because of his serum, which he calls "anti-reticular-cytotoxic serum" and mercifully abbreviates to ACS, the professor was decorated last week with the Order of Lenin and the Hammer & Sickle Gold Medal, received the rank of Hero of Socialist Labor...
Widespread Success. When the war came, ACS was immediately put to use. Injections have become so general that proud Professor Bogomoletz last week told a Red Star reporter that "at present, the anti-reticular-cytotoxic serum has been widely and successfully used in all hospitals and clinics for curing the consequences of war injuries." Red Star carried stories about men now at the front who would have been legless or armless but for ACS. The professor says the serum does not cost much and is easy to make (Russia made 3,000,000 doses in 1943); he recommends that Russia...