Word: serum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each of Dr. Mahoney's patients was given an injection of 25,000 units of penicillin in the buttock muscles every four hours. Each received 48 injections. After 16 hours of treatment, the corkscrew-shaped spirochetes no longer showed up under the microscope in serum from the lesion. Dr. Mahoney was "stunned"; this is the first case on record in which penicillin has killed spirochetes, a higher form of life than bacilli. Yet the patients had no bad reaction from the injections...
...recovered. The two who died did so almost as soon as they reached the hospital, might have lived if they had been treated soon enough. The death rate from spinal meningitis, like that of cholera or bubonic plague, used to be about 70% of all cases. Anti-meningococcus serum, which came into use about 1907, cut the mortality to around 25%. But in World War I meningitis was the sixth cause of death in the U.S. Army, killed 1,737 soldiers. The sulfa drugs, if used soon enough, may now cut the mortality to the vanishing point...
...couple of Russians named Smorodintsev and Nachaev recently figured out a way of preventing and treating influenza. Since influenza is contracted by breathing infective material, they reasoned, why not inhale serum from the blood of horses which have been immunized? In an article soon to appear in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Commander Albert P. Krueger of the University of California says that the Russians are right...
...Naval Unit's experiments, mice inhaled a fine spray of specially treated horse serum and then received large doses of mouse-influenza organisms in their noses. The mice proved immune to influenza and stayed that way about six days. The doctors think that the Russian method is successful because it puts influenza antibodies (blood elements which fight the disease) where they are needed...
...South African Institute, which processes the dried venom received from snake catchers, produces antivenin, has sent off thousands of doses all over the world. (Puff-adder venom is also used as a coagulant in hemophilia.) A quick injection of serum has saved the life of many a soldier bitten by ugly horned vipers in the West African desert, bush-masters in Central America, kraits and king cobras on the Burma front and mambas in South Africa...