Word: serum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...
...still too early to talk about curing or preventing colds-even the type of common cold caused by V14A. Dr. Topping (who developed the first effective serum for Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 1940) would say only that a vaccine is "a possibility, not a probability." (It took ten years to develop a flu vaccine after the flu virus was isolated in 1933.) As a final gloomy thought, Dr. Topping feared that even if a vaccine is developed, it will give immunity for only a very short time, and, of course, against only one type of cold...
...Next day PM's Albert Deutsch asked U.N. World Health Organization officials. Their verdict: "The means of propagating cholera make it absolutely unfit as a weapon of bacterial warfare." The Associated Press reported that Russia was sending anti-cholera serum to Egypt...
...Cholera, an infection of the digestive tract, kills chiefly by removing water from the body. The blood gets too thick to circulate, and death comes from "shock." Modern treatment knocks off the vibrios (comma-shaped, whiskery bacteria) with sulfa drugs, and dilutes the thickening blood with saline solution or serum. The vaccine has worked well. No one receiving two injections (cost: 3?) has yet got the disease; only one who has had a single shot has come down with...
...during the building of the Central Railway, when 7,000 workers died before the rails had been pushed out of the valley. The first investigator of the disease was a medical student named Daniel A. Carrión, now a Peruvian national hero, who died after inoculating himself with serum from a patient's wart. Verruga is still something of a medical mystery. Nobody has ever found out how the sandfly acquires its parasite, where it lays its eggs, why it seems to have thrived only in one narrow area. Doctors have found no effective treatment for verruga. Natives...