Word: serum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most old people die of vascular (blood vessel) diseases. Dr. Gumpert asserts that these and other diseases of age can be prevented or mitigated by modern geriatrics (the science of diseases of the aged). He also places great hope in Russian Biochemist Alexander Bogomoletz' ACS serum (TIME, Jan. 17), which may lengthen life by delaying the aging of connective tissue. But man's best hope of living longer, says Dr. Gumpert, is in his mental attitude toward death. The present system of life-insurance rates, retirement, pensions, etc., in Gumpert's view, "makes life an embarrassing preparation...
...disease kills up to 80% of its victims, the Public Health Service has developed a vaccine for prevention and a serum for treatment (TIME, June 30, 1941), which cuts the death rate to a little less than 4%. Since all vaccine is reserved for people who must work in heavily infected woods, the Public Health Service advises others to de-tick themselves every few hours by using tweezers or paper to pick the ticks off-thus keeping the germs (if any) off the hands. The Army's Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk reports that sulfur dusted into shoes...
...certain kind of streptococci in brains and spinal fluid of animal and human poliomyelitis victims; 2) finds the same germs in milk, water and the throats of about 33% of well people during polio epidemics; 3) finds very few of the germs between epidemics; 4) makes a streptococcus serum that protects animals from poliomyelitis...
...vice versa. His photographs of slides show the streptococcus in graduated sizes, some so small that the next size is presumably invisible. He says his converted virus causes poliomyelitis (and sometimes encephalitis). If verified, these findings will be big news, since Dr. Rosenow's streptococcus lends itself to serum making much better than the polio virus does...
Seven commercial houses under Navy contract use Dr. Cohn's methods to extract serum albumin and other blood components. Since Dr. Cohn's laboratory does war work, the outside door is locked, the number of white-garbed assistants secret. So is most of the work being done within...