Word: serum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost everything except Tahiti, made out his will and sat down to await the end in Hollywood. He bequeathed his "17,000 books . . . paintings . . . works of art" to Tahiti, left his typewriter and Pomeranian to the Martians, signed his body over to science for the possible development of "a serum . . . against the seven capital sins...
...City plant was built in the earlier days of the war, when laboratory mice for the processing of tropical-disease serum were desperately scarce in the U.S. Government joined forces with industrv-which in this case turned out to be professional mouse breeders Frederic G. Carnochan and C. N. Wentworth Cumming. They already had a plant at New City. With Government aid, production zoomed from some 5,000 to 15,000 mice a week (price: 25? a mouse). Old. blue-blooded European strains, in danger of war extermination, were crated, bedded down on peanut shells, and flown to New City...
...Richter gave three rats each a dish containing 139 grams (about 4½ ounces) of operating-room blood and serum. In less than 24 hours "two of the rats had eaten all of the blood and one had eaten 47 grams. When one considers that the average normal food intake of full-grown wild rats does not usually exceed 35 to 40 grams, the large intake of 139 grams indicates that the rats had a real craving for this fresh human blood...
...European continent." In 1943 there were nearly 300,000 cases in Germany, 150,000 in The Netherlands in the last three years. The disease has occurred in wounds and has attacked an abnormally large proportion of adults. The bacteria are unusually virulent; some cases do not respond to early serum treatment, which is ordinarily a lifesaver...
...doctor has suggested exposing all young girls to German measles. This would make most, but not all, permanently immune. Dr. Stimson's advice: keep pregnant women away from cases of German measles; if a woman is exposed, give shots of pooled human blood plasma or serum to fight the disease. He thinks abortion will "have to be considered very seriously" whenever the disease appears in early pregnancy...