Word: serum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exploring the Unknown (Sun. 9 p.m., Mutual). "Can Man Live to be 150 Years Old?" Dramatization of the ACS serum of Russia's Dr. Alexander A. Bogomolets, who died last week...
...Frances Brown; of having strangled and dissected six-year-old Suzanne Degnan; of having shot and stabbed Mrs. Josephine Ross, a Chicago widow, when she surprised him looting her apartment. The papers declared that he had made an oral confession of all three murders while lulled by a "truth serum" (sodium pentothal). Bill insisted that he could neither rob nor murder. He blamed it all on a fellow named George Murman...
Died. Dr. Alexander Alexandrovitch Bogomolets, 65, director of the Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology at Kiev, discoverer of the anti-reticular cytotoxic serum ("ACS"), Which he thought might make people live to 150 by stimulating the connective tissues of the human system, but which, as a heart-disease sufferer, he could not use himself (TIME, June 17); in Kiev...
...Spleen Serum. The serum is extracted from the blood of horses which have been injected with spleen cells and bone marrow from young, healthy persons who have died by accident. "It is not an elixir of long life," insisted Bogomolets last week, "but something that fights the enemies of longer life-cancer and high blood pressure." (It is too potent for some people, and Dr. Bogomolets himself is one of those who cannot be treated: his heart is too weak for an ACS fillip...
Chief U.S. center of ACS research is Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where Dr. Harry Goldblatt has been making and testing the serum for more than two years. Although he has treated more than 3,500 patients (and been harassed by requests from thousands more), so far he has come to only one conclusion about ACS: "It is not a cure for anything." Nevertheless, Dr. Goldblatt says that he is "not encouraged to discontinue the experiments...