Word: serum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pathological Colloquium: "The Blood Pictures in Horse Serum Anaphylaxis in the Guinea...
...rumors, that able Academy director sat down last week and wrote to every editor he knew: "May I emphatically deny . . . that I have become interested in Dr. Koch's cancer cure, and that I have promised to aid in having a demonstration of Dr. Koch's cancer serum made on 1,000 cancer sufferers? These statements are entirely without foundation, and whoever is propagating them is doing gross violence to the truth...
...breakbone" fever,* parrot fever. During one study he contracted breakbone fever, during another parrot fever. The parrot fever attack made him particularly useful to the wife of Senator William Edgar Borah when she contracted that disease. Serum from Dr. Armstrong's immune blood cured her. Dr. Armstrong's current assignment is last year's epidemic of sleeping sickness in St. Louis (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933, et ante). Last week he was working on the serology of the strangest of the St. Louis sleeping sickness cases when, too ill to continue, he went to the Naval Hospital...
Last week Professor Fred Edmund D'Amour, University of Denver zoologist and physiologist, sent the cheery message to vineyardists and tomato croppers that he has devised a serum against the black widow's poison. The poison causes spasms, high fever, nausea, vomiting, unconsciousness, occasionally death. Treatment has been to relieve pain by narcotics, to relieve spasms by hot baths, to support strength with whiskey...
...inventing his serum, Professor D'Amour mildly poisoned rats with small doses of black widow venom. Eventually the rats became immune to the venom. Serum from the blood of the rats cured a vineyard worker three hours after a black widow...