Word: serum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That snake bite poisoning can be counteracted by a horse serum was discovered 25 years ago by Dr. Albert Calmette of the Paris Pasteur Institute. He injected first small doses of cobra venom, then increasingly larger doses into a horse, progressively the horse's blood developed proper antibodies. That horse's serum cured cobra bites-if used promptly, for cobra venom kills very quickly...
Brazil, infested with snakes, followed up his work. Its Institute of Serum Therapy soon became the world's foremost. Mulford's Antivenin Institute now ranks well with...
...Catch the snake that did the biting. To identify it is to know what serum to use. Polyvalent serums are made, good against rattler, moccasin or copperhead bites. For other snakes specific anti-venoms must be used...
...case is diagnosed in the first three days of the disease, before paralysis has set in, a cure is possible, according to Dr. W. Lloyd Aycock, in charge of the Commission's work. A serum has been produced, which, if administered in this early stage, has had considerable effect in checking the affliction, especially in the severe cases. One of the purposes of the Commission is to educate doctors to judge the case before the paralysis sets in, which was heretofore thought impossible...
...summer epidemics the Commission goes throughout the state giving serum to the sufferers, while in the off season research is conducted at the Harvard Medical School. It is a very difficult disease to work with, as it is transmitted by invisible bacteria, so small that they pass through the finest filters. Monkeys are the only animals that take the disease, so they and convalescing patients afford the only possible sources of a serum cure...