Word: serum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, for all the forced-draft accomplishments of the years since V-J day, the city and its satellite towns were still grappling with a multiplicity of problems. The prosaic business of supplying new homes with gas, sewage lines and electricity had taken on the breathless urgency of a serum flight to Nome. Under Bowron's administration 50 miles of cast-iron water mains had been laid every month to keep up with the city's mushrooming growth. Los Angeles had built 34 new schools in ten years and still needed "a new one every Monday morning." Though...
Rheumatoid arthritis claims some 7,000,000 victims in the U.S. Looking for a cure, doctors have tried just about everything, including high-calorie diets, low-calorie diets, vitamins A, B, C and D, typhoid vaccine, streptococcus vaccine, artificial fever, blood transfusions, injections of milk and horse serum, aspirin and whisky (for pain), massage, dry heat, mineral baths, metals such as gold, change of climate, psychotherapy, exercise and rest in bed. Some of the treatments proved to be harmless, some harmful. Some even seemed to work, but only for a while...
Safer Blood. Stockpiling whole blood and plasma is now known to be risky: some recipients get a serious liver disease called homologous serum jaundice. One donor who carries the jaundice virus in his blood might infect a pool given by 5,000 donors. Drs. Frank W. Hartman and George H. Mangun of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital think they have found a way to sterilize the blood and kill the virus without making the blood harmful or useless. They have used nitrogen mustard, a war gas, and are now experimenting with a chemical called dimethyl sulphate. To prove...
During the last two years, Dr. Huggins and associates have tested the blood of 300 people, both sick and apparently well. They heated samples of the blood after adding a chemical called iodoacetate. In the blood of healthy people the protein (serum albumin) clotted much more readily than protein in the blood of people who had cancer, tuberculosis, various severe infections, such as kidney diseases. Where tests were positive, other diseases could be readily ruled out, and a search for the location of cancer could continue by more complicated methods. Study of the reasons why the blood protein of cancer...
Several other deaths due to "serum sickness" or delayed reaction to penicillin have been reported; the patients died five to eleven days later. But this was the first death reported due to "anaphylactic shock," i.e., immediate allergic reaction. There may have been others. Dr. Waldbott warns: "Not everybody would write up deaths in their own practice; and not everyone would recognize such a death as due to anaphylactic shock." His advice to physicians: check carefully to make sure the patient has not been sensitized to penicillin; if he has been, take extra care not to inject it into a vein...