Word: serum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often caused people to break out in a mild rash. Occasionally it has caused more severe reactions. Last week, in the U.S. Armed Forces Medical Journal, a Navy medical officer warned sharply that the ill effects of penicillin are increasing in both number and gravity. Reactions like old-fashioned serum sickness,† he said, suggest that penicillin may act as such a strong sensitizing agent that a second course of treatment with it becomes impossible for a while...
...Which commonly resulted from horse and rabbit serum treatments for pneumonia...
...received 30 lashes and was committed to the care of the Nazis' sadistic quacks in the Ravensburg Experimental Station. Eight injections of poison in her right eye blinded it. Other injections destroyed the hearing nerve in one ear. Then the Nazis injected typhus into her blood to make serum. In the typhus block they did not bother to feed prisoners. The countess' last memory of Ravensburg was of feebly trying to fend off a ravenous woman prisoner turned cannibal. Two days later Yvonne awoke in Sweden. The Swedish Red Cross, accompanying Allied liberation troops, had found her among...
...fluid part of the blood goes through more centrifuges and chilling processes. Out come a serum globulin (used to prevent or control measles), serum albumin (for treatment of shock), fibrinogen, thrombin and prothrombin - and more components of blood for which medical science has not yet found uses...
Instead of exposing himself to deadly snakes to test the serum, Philpot bought rattlesnake and moccasin venom in powdered form. Then he went to work on mice. He found that a mouse could be injected with 2½ to 3½ times the lethal dose of viper venom, and still survive if promptly given an injection of king snake serum. Better yet, he found that his king snake extract was three to four times more effective than a commercial preparation made, by a far more difficult process, from the blood of venom-injected horses...