Word: serum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Influenzal meningitis (not related to influenza or epidemic meningitis) used to kill 92% to 100% of all cases. But Manhattan's Dr. Hattie Elizabeth Alexander loses only 25% of her patients. Dr. Alexander's lifesaving treatment consists of a special serum and sulfadiazine. Said she last week: "If treatment were always prompt, mortality could be brought near the zero mark...
...Alexander developed her serum in 1938. It is made by injecting rabbits with Hemophilus Infiuenzae (bacteria responsible for the disease), then making an extract of the rabbit's blood...
...Best animal for serum experiments is the rabbit. Serum for the purpose is made by inoculating rams with rabbit spleen and marrow cells, making an extract from their blood...
Research to find a substitute for human plasma does not stop with beef blood. Some substitutes that work: coconut milk, casein, isinglass (fish gelatin), pectin. But doctors still reserve their real enthusiasm for safe human plasma or human serum albumin...
...Serum albumin is extracted from blood plasma by a newly perfected process. The albumin goes six times as far as an equivalent amount of plasma, is now being made for use by para troopers, small naval units, other troops with little room for luggage...