Word: serum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disease. She had simply demonstrated the presence of a virus. To establish that it was the virus of encephalitis, it would have to be isolated and passed through a series of animals. If these developed the disease's symptoms, then would come the work of producing a serum...
...coincided with the greatest influx of mosquitoes in St. Louis County history. Queerest theory advanced was that Catholic missionaries, some from Africa, convening in St. Louis last month had brought genuine African sleeping sickness. Autopsies on three victims showed the brain red and pressing down on the spinal column. Serum from the brain of one victim killed a monkey, left a rabbit unscathed...
...abroad for her confinement. A year or so later, on her way back to marry Andrews who has finally rid himself of his spouse, Dr. Stevens helps the ship's doctor treat a case of infantile paralysis. Her own child contracts the disease and dies before serum can be brought by airplane. She is just about to throw herself out of a window in despair when the janitor scampers in to say that his child has swallowed a safety pin. Pulling it out is what restores Mary Stevens' interest in existence...
...cures of sickness no more signify an infallible remedy than do two swallow's make a summer. Nevertheless physicians were interested last week when Dr. Ronald Hare of London reported in the Lancet two cures of influenza pneumonia with serum prepared from human beings convalescing from influenza...
Researchers learned to make the new serum by experimenting on ferrets...