Word: serum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Paris fell, one of the adjuncts of civilization that went with it was the Institut Pasteur. It was a severe loss to Allied soldiers, for the Institut was, among other things, the world's principal source of snakebite serum. From Johannesburg now comes the story of a long, dangerous mission undertaken by three enlisted men of the South African Army to help make up this loss...
Members of this snake patrol, who set out to collect venom for serum-making for the South African Institute of Medical Research, are Corporals F. Walsey and M. J. Clemence and Private L. L. Lear. In the past 15 months they have captured close to a thousand of Africa's deadliest snakes...
...Murray Sanders of Manhattan got to work as soon as keratoconjunctivitis showed itself, announced last October that he had isolated the disease virus. Last week, with Dr. Alson Braley, he wrote in the Journal of the A.M.A. that he had tried injections of blood serum from convalescent cases on ten patients. Results: he achieved "striking clinical improvement" in nine of the ten, six of whom were cured in 48 hours...
...cholera is the most destructive. Symptoms are fever, loss of appetite, weakness (hog looks "lost in thought"), thirst. No cure is known, and pigs usually die within ten days. But cholera can be prevented by inoculating young pigs with anti-hog-cholera serum supplemented with a dose of the virus. Farmers should not put off immunization until cholera is reported near by: then it is too late...
...Swine erysipelas causes unusually high temperatures (normal for swine: 103°-104° F.), stiff gait, enlarged joints, red spots on skin, sudden death. If caught early, anti-swine erysipelas serum may help...