Word: serum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian science has reported another medical sensation: a serum which stimulates or inhibits the life processes of living tissue. The Russian scientists claim that the serum hastens wound healing, mends broken bones more quickly, increases the body's defenses against infection and cancer, may enable man to live to be 125 years...
Born in Jail. Professor Alexander Alexandrovitch Bogomoletz, who has worked on the serum for more than 18 years, is a physiologist and pathologist of very high international standing. He is director of Kiev's Institute for Experimental Biology and Pathology which, until the Nazis got there, was one of the best equipped laboratories in the world. Since 1930 he has been president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. When the Germans came, he moved from Kiev (he was born in jail there in 1881, while his mother was a political prisoner) to Ufa in the Urals. This month...
Marrow from Human Corpses. The serum is not new to the Russians. Famed Professor Elie Metchnikoff was working on a similar serum back in 1900. ACS was used experimentally on animals until about 1936. Then it was tried out on human patients. To acquaint U.S. doctors with this work, the latest issue of the American Review of Soviet Medicine carries three articles on ACS, including one by Professor Bogomoletz. Some highlights...
...acute appendix operation in 1921. Ten years later a New York taxicab knocked him down, gave him lacerations and pleurisy. He recovered with the aid of 3,000 units of anti-tetanus serum. Only ten months ago he had another attack of pneumonia...
Unable to find any bacterial cause for the disease, Dr. Whitney blames some unknown virus. The only treatment that seems to do any good is injection of serum from a recovered dog, but this works only in the early stages...