Word: serum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recent reports on Professor Bogomoletz' ACS serum for improving tissue resistance and prolonging life (TIME, Jan. 17) left many questions (on dosage, duration of treatment, etc.) unanswered. From Moscow last week came some of the answers...
...Match to a Fire. Professor Bogomoletz' description of ACS's complex action in the body reads like one of Professor Einstein's "simplifications" of his theory. The serum's effects begin to show about the time of the second dose. First signs: 1) increased ability of blood substances to enter cells; 2) dilated capillaries; 3) a rise in lymphocytes (a kind of white blood corpuscle). Three or four hours later, a second stage begins, during which lymphocytes decrease and monocytes (another kind of white corpuscle) multiply and migrate from the blood into the solid tissue. Cells...
Widespread Success. When the war came, ACS was immediately put to use. Injections have become so general that proud Professor Bogomoletz last week told a Red Star reporter that "at present, the anti-reticular-cytotoxic serum has been widely and successfully used in all hospitals and clinics for curing the consequences of war injuries." Red Star carried stories about men now at the front who would have been legless or armless but for ACS. The professor says the serum does not cost much and is easy to make (Russia made 3,000,000 doses in 1943); he recommends that Russia...
...have handled 360 burn cases aboard a hospital ship, do not believe in tannic acid for burns-it forms a loose, crusty scab under which infection often develops. All they used on the young fireman was sulfathiazole ointment and rather tight bandages. The tightness slowed the oozing of blood serum into injured tissues, thus reducing shock. A month after he was burned, the sailor's wounds were healthy and pinch grafts were laid on his deepest burns. The patient, almost unscarred, is now back on duty...
...same Bulletin Commander Melvin Dewey Abbott and Lieut. John Randolph Gepfert report using medicated human blood plasma as a burn dressing. They got the idea from the light yellow blood serum which exudes from any deep burn and acts as a soothing, protective coating. They mixed blood plasma with a little sulfanilamide and some gum tragacanth to make a paste, used it on twelve second-degree burns. "The results were very definitely better than those obtained by the use of any one of the many methods in vogue during the past two years...