Word: serum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marked by similar sacrifices, the acts of heroes most of whom have suffered in obscurity and silence, and who have usually been neglected in the records of heroism. The story of the voluntary victims to malaria, who allowed the disease to run its course with them so that a serum could be found and the tropics made safe for white men, was one of the first to become widely known. But there have been many like it--surgeons who have experimented on their own bodies, chemists who have labored fearlessly under imminent risks from fumes or explosives, finally these numerous...
...patient was suffering from a bad abscess, it would be criminally ridiculous in his physician to foster the disease because a serum was obtainable from the abscess which could innoculate the patient against irritating fleabites...
From the snake house his poison is shipped to the Harvard laboratory, and thence to Brazil, where the Brazilian government runs a large serum plant. Long years of study have developed a method of procuring serum by injecting minute quantities of the poison of a given species into a horse. Gradually, the dos s are increased, until its blood begins to manufacture an antidote to this special poison and eventually becomes immune to it. From the blood of the horse the antidote is extracted, and this in turn is preserved and sent to hospitals so that it may be used...
...Pedroso has been experimenting extensively on rats, and is sure that the results would be the same on human beings. He takes blood from one limb, passes it through an apparatus he has invented where it is treated with heat, electricity, or serum as the case may be, and then back into another limb. His object is then reached and the transmutation is a fait accompli...