Word: reticular
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...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...