Word: serum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through an atmosphere murky with the fog and rain of the Liverpool waterfront, passengers file gloomily aboard a freighter bound for more sunny shores. One of them is a young medical genius blighted by ill fortune, and he staggers aboard destined for an alcoholic oblivion, the precious serum with him. Another is the blonde and brightly smiling Lady Mary, who glimpses the doctor and has sympathy. Melodramatic, if you like, but "Grand Canary" makes a far better picture than most of Hollywood's infinite variations of the Arrowsmith theme...
...white laborer on a Trinidad cocoa plantation. Half the length to which a bushmaster may grow (12 ft.), it behaved characteristically by refusing to eat. But it drank copiously, gave every indication of a willingness to bite Dr. Ditmars at the first opportunity. Should that happen, with no serum handy, Dr. Ditmars would probably die in less than ten minutes...
Hero, One of the Northwest's great heroes is husky, hearty Frank Dorbandt. He has rushed serum to many a stricken Eskimo, carried antitoxin to many an ailing Indian, flown many a sick white to far-off hospitals. In 1930 he risked his life in an air search for his onetime flying mate, the late Carl Ben Eielson. In 1932 he made headlines by landing Father Bernard Hubbard inside the smoking volcano of Aniakchak. A longtime fur trader, Hero Dorbandt lately was accused by the Federal Government of smuggling pelts into the U. S. Last month in Seattle...
After two years of research at Yale, Dr. Solly Zuckerman, Oxford zoologist, last week reported that the blood serum proteins of Old World monkeys are closer kin to the corresponding human proteins than to those of New World monkeys. Thus was Sir Arthur's tree upheld in outline, but the discovery seemed to indicate that the Old World monkey branch should be moved up the main stem, farther from the New World monkey divergence, closer to the human fork...
...germ which is carried by a flea from rats to man. The death rate is 80%. An infection of the blood stream, the disease runs its fatal course in a week or less, with high fever and great pain. Persons may be inoculated against bubonic plague. The use of serum in the first few hours of the disease reduces the mortality rate...