Word: serum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like some 6,000,000 other New Yorkers, the staff of TIME Inc. underwent this mass vaccination during the recent threatened smallpox epidemic. There were no serious casualties, although the TIME & LIFE Medical Department-assisted by a private physician and serum from the Willard Parker laboratories-put in a grueling week vaccinating about...
Disregarding Holmes' advice almost 200 handkerchief-wielding, bleary-eyed University students flock to the Hygiene Building at bi-weekly intervals to get injections for their malady. So great has been their onslaught that the bottles of serum used for the shots have overflowed one refrigerator, and the Hygiene Department has been forced to install another one to handle the rush...
...most areas of the globe, peacetime accidents and diseases still crop up regularly in all communities, Cambridge included. For the victim of hit-and-run driving or a homorrhagic ailment, a pint of blood, supplied gratis by the State Red Cross is a vital serum which often turns impending death into certain life...
Around the Filter. For a long time, Dr. Stern worried over a basic medical problem: why is it that certain medicines and serums injected into the blood stream do not get through to the brain nerve centers? Intravenous injections of anti-tetanus serum, for example, fail to check tetanus once the poison gets into the central nervous system. Dr. Stern decided that there must be a barrier (a filtering membrane), developed to protect the nerves and spinal fluid from harmful substances and most germs. She called this block the "hematoencephalic barrier...
Infrequent emergency situations also trouble the medical students. One child entered the clinic one day with a rusty nall in his foot. Though anti-tetanus serum was necessary, the students are not permitted by law to administer it. Thus the problem of getting in touch with busy neighborhood doctors, or of supplying funds for hospital transportation arose. Though this problem was solved, it is the kind of perplexing situation that confronts the "medics" occasionally, Cobb said...