Word: serum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serum-why they did not even try it. It was not the good one. We pass for a country of snows. That is bad enough without calling us a land of ignorants. We have scientists. We have serums...
...accusation. A feeling that aviation was unscrupulous, newspapers debased, that the public had been hoaxed, even that Charles Augustus Lindbergh had lent a hand to this nefarious business sprang up. Letters poured in to the newspapers demanding explanations. Was it just a publicity stunt? Why was not the serum used, if it was needed? Why did it have to be sent dramatically from Manhattan by air when Montreal was known as a great medical centre? What was the pretty touch about sending the white mice...
...necessary to send the serum from New York, by airplane. Pneumonia is not a simple, single disease. Originally the term "pneumonia" meant any disease characterized by high fever and inflammation of the parenchyma of the lungs. The vast number of causes-colds, bronchitis, influenza, typhoid fever, measles, fatigue, exposure-indicates its complexity. During the War men died of pneumonia after inhaling poison gases...
...various types of pneumonia. They fall into four great groups, Types I, II, III, IV. For Types I and II excellent sera have been prepared from horses. These can be found in any large city in the world, including Montreal, although there was none obtainable in Quebec. 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...
...three years Drs. Felton and Rosenow at Harvard and Drs. Park and Banzhaf at the New York City Board of Health had worked to get the horse serum out of the final product. Finally they were successful. They developed a method of growing the antibodies in the horse, making the serum, then refining it until all the horse serum was removed, leaving only the helpful antibodies. The refined product is ten times as effective and has no dangerous after effects. There is only one place in Canada or the United States where this serum is prepared: the Board of Health...