Word: serum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them in a rigidly sanitary compound. When, by inoculation, they could produce distemper in these dogs, they knew they had isolated its virus. It was easy then to prepare a protective vaccine. From the blood of dogs hyperimmunized by repeated injections of vaccine and virus, they developed a curative serum...
...necessary only to inject in it (preferably at the age of three months) two doses of Laidlaw-Dunkin vaccine, followed fortnight later by a dose of living virus. Preferred by some dog-owners because it involves only one trip to the veterinarian is a simultaneous inoculation with serum and virus. Theoretically sound, the practical worth of the simultaneous method has not yet been established. To cure sick dogs, an injection of serum during the early stages of the disease has proven effective...
...state, also maintains a clinic in the Children's Hospital in Boston, under the direction of A. T. Legg, assistant professor of Orthopedic Surgery. This clinic diagnoses and supervises cases of the disease which occur in Boston. The research staff is endeavoring to discover a more effective serum than the one now used. Contributions for the fund are being received by Kidder Peabody and Company, of Boston. It is hoped that $20,000 will be raised this year...
Type I causes one-third of these pneumonia cases, kills 25% to 30% of its victims. Young persons seem especially susceptible to this Type I. For this there is already a beneficial serum...
...William Hallock Park now was less sanguine concerning deliberately cultivated serums for this particular disease. Last season horse serum seemed to do no more good than convalescent serum from humans who had had severe attacks of infantile paralysis, which, contrary to prior reasoning, was little or no good at all. Per-haps parents and physicians notice infantile paralysis too late for serums to take effect. On the presumption that most people have had a mild attack of infantile paralysis, which they did not notice but which nonetheless protects them against further assaults, Dr. Park's associates last season injected...